“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.”
― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

“The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, Mark Twain: The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
― Ralph W. Sockman