Examples of famous quotes from Xu Xiake's travel notes are as follows:

1. There are so many words.

2. Travel thousands of miles with roots at your feet.

3. There is gold under the man’s knees.

4. This body is the body of mountains and rivers.

5. Where can I not bury my bones?

6. The mountains are like my father and the rivers are like my mother.

7. A gentleman’s words are hard to catch up with.

8. The husband looks like a blue sea in the morning and a sky in the evening.

9. Visiting the mountains is like looking for friends, and traveling far away is like taking care of yourself.

10. The flying stream falls three thousand feet, which is suspected to be the Milky Way falling from the sky.

11. I want to ride a bicycle backwards on the back of a jade dragon, and watch the cranes dancing gracefully on the top of the mountain.

12. I live at the head of the river, and you live at the end of the Yangtze River. I miss you every day without seeing you, and I drink the water of the Yangtze River.

13. Therefore, if you don’t explore the source of the river, you won’t know that it is bigger than the river. If you don’t compare it with the river, you won’t know how far its source is.

14. The road left unfinished by the predecessors will be continued by future generations.

15. Facing the blue sea and facing the blue sky at dusk is an ideal and heroic spirit that stretches between heaven and earth, regardless of distance, distance, morning or evening, or mountains and seas.

16. The mountains are like my father and the rivers are like my mother. The mountains and rivers of the motherland nurture the endless Chinese civilization, letting us know where the roots of the Chinese people are and where the Chinese civilization originated.

17. More than 4,000 years ago, the Yellow Emperor, Dayu and other sages built mountain passes, regulated rivers, and defined regions, using practice to lay the foundation for Chinese classical geography. More than 300 years ago, geographers of the Ming Dynasty Xu Xiake inherited the past and opened up the future, pioneering and innovating for modern geography. Since then, generations of geographers have continued and opened up the future, and Chinese geography has gradually evolved into modern geography.