Ella Maillart
Ella Maillart
Ella Maillartwas a French-speaking Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well as a sportswoman...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth20 February 1903
CountrySwitzerland
running imagination enthusiasm
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
journey men voyages
There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.
cutting men rose
I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
moving giving alive
Certain travelers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
able
Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.
boys climbing laughing
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
sea sailing nautical
The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
children blessed artist
One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
running dying earth
The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.
distance talking horizon
The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.
character journey perfect
The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.
good-life green desert
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
journey oneness feelings
One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
looks certain instant
When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.