We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children. Ella Maillart More Quotes by Ella Maillart More Quotes From Ella Maillart You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. Ella Maillart journeyinspirationaltravel It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better. Ella Maillart journeyselffaces We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life. Ella Maillart boardsunderstandingpeople When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see. Ella Maillart certainliteraturelooks The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances. Ella Maillart horizondistancetalking 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. Ella Maillart onenessjourneyfeelings I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. Ella Maillart desertgood-lifegreen 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. Ella Maillart artistblessedchildren The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be. Ella Maillart seainspirationalfunny The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character. Ella Maillart journeyperfectcharacter There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men. Ella Maillart journeyliteraturemen Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of. Ella Maillart desireadventuretravel I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end. Ella Maillart endsworldtravel Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it. Ella Maillart ableliterature You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat. Ella Maillart climbinghikingboys One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind. Ella Maillart illusiondonemind I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values. Ella Maillart i-cansubstancefeelings One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. Ella Maillart routineimaginationrunning The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth. Ella Maillart wovendyingrunning I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise? Ella Maillart cuttingrosemen
