“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson Related Quotes “Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.”– Sophie Swetchine “A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It’s not about inventing.”– Paul Theroux “Americans in particular are myopic. They’re not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That’s what I did. I went to Indonesia.”– Julie Taymor