"A map is the greatest of all epic poems.
Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams."

- Gilbert H. Grosvenor,
National Geographic Editor (1903-1954)

"...Everybody else thought the strip of black outside was just a road. We knew better...
...I could see it - stretching all the way to the Pacific Ocean..."

- Excerpts from "Grandaddy's Highway",
a childrens book about US 30, by Harriett Diller.

"A good map is both a useful tool and a magic carpet to faraway places."

- New York Times

There ought to be a law against anybody going to Europe
until they have seen the things we have in this country.

- Will Rogers

Travel without any intellectual preparation is without profit.

- Dr. Bryce Lyons

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast
without seeing anything.

- Charles Kuralt

As soon as we begin to talk about anything that really matters,
someone has to go and get the atlas.

- Rudyard Kipling, in a speech to the Royal Geographic Society

A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.

- Steven King in "Down East"

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

- Peter Steinhart, "Names on a Map", 1986

Not all who wander are lost.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

The real flavor of a place can only be gained by wandering leisurely, talking to people, smelling, feeling, tasting the land at close range and slow pace. In short, interstates may give us velocity, but only backroads can give us roots.

- Boyd and Barbara Norton, "Backroads of Colorado"

Enter through the narrow gate.
For wide is the gate and broad is the road
that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
But small is the gate and narrow the road
that leads to life, and only a few find it.

- Matthew 7:13,14 (NIV translation of the Bible)

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