The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

Paul Theroux
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To travel is to experience something you might never experience again. It teaches us about the world and about ourselves. That’s why we can’t help but want to travel. For many people, the desire to travel is so strong that they’ll do it even if it means putting their own safety at risk. The fact that we do this shows that we care about our safety and the safety of those around us.

Source: The Tao Of Travel: Enlightenments From Lives On The Road

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