(0) Hildebrand Jacobs in an early 1700s essay entitled "How the Mind is Raised by the Sublime" offered a list of places most likely to invoke the feeling: oceans, setting sun, caverns, and "Swiss mountains."

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(1) Google search: At this writing, 6,420,000 hits for "travel experts"

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(2) "Who put me here?"—Pascal

from: "When I consider...the small space I occupy, which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me, I take fright and amazed...there is no reason for me be here rather than there; now rather than then. Who put me here?"— Pascal, Pensees

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(3) "Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry."—Thomas Grey

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(4) The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.—Marcel Proust

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(5)Don't panic! —Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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(6) Even disasters—there are always disasters when you travel—can be turned into adventures. —Marilyn French

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(7) It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by the company we keep.—Alain de Botton

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(8) Dorothy, reluctant traveler, in Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz

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(9)The journey not the arrival matters.— T.S. Eliot

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(10) "Room travel": See 18th century's Xavier de Maistre, "Journey around My Bedroom" and its thrilling sequel "Nocturnal Expedition around my Bedroom."

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(11) I travel not to go anywhere but to go...the great affair is to move.—Robert Louis Stevenson

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(12) Book jacket copy: Art of Travel.

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(13) Keep moving.—Hunter Thompson

The end of a journey is never an end. It's just another beginning....