“Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.Miguel de Cervantes
“As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.Plutarch
“But Europe at that time was thrilled with joy, France standing on the top of golden hours, And human nature seeming born again. William Wordsworth
“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.Samuel Johnson