Outdoor Quote: John Steinbeck
Filed in archive Outdoor Quotes on January 29, 2008

"Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the-glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like a marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
—John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley
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camping girl
(02/22/08 8:14am)
Nice quote. I have always loved the way Steinbeck writes :-)
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