Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others...

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

The heart is never neutral.

And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls.

The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I get lonely? I promise not to scare you.

Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.