50 Quotes by Ella Maillart

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.