Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Travel

Do not follow where the path may lead.

Graduation, Travel, Adventure

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Motivational, Travel, Memorable

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travel, Use, Fruit

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.459

The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education, Travel, Home

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.278, Library of America

Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travel, Greatness, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.227, Jazzybee Verlag

Travel is a fools paradise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travel, Tourism, Paradise

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travel, Journey, Tourism

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.278, Library of America

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travel, Home, Character

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.392

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Running, Country, Travel

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.369

Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Travel, White

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.450, Penguin

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travel, Paradise, Fool

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travel, Egypt, Self

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.180, Harvard University Press

Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Country, Travel, Doe

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.365, Рипол Классик

No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Country, Art, Travel

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.393