Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your back. It is a confidence in having left the inessentials behind and of entering a world of natural beauty that has not been violated, where money has no value, and possessions are a dead weight. The person with the fewest possessions is the freest. Thoreau was right.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.