Ella Maillart

"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."

- Ella Maillart

"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."

- Ella Maillart

"One of the main points about traveling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible."

- Ella Maillart

"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."

- Ella Maillart