Quotes About Wanderlust

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

I'm just fascinated by visiting actual castles in the countryside.

Sometimes when I travel, I like to close my eyes and imagine visiting during another era.

I always like to read something romantic about the place I'm visiting.

I could spend all my time on a plane visiting multiple countries, and I would never visit enough.

I don't want to leave the house, and I don't want to settle down.

I find it hard to settle into a normal, routine environment.

I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.

I'm barely at home enough to enjoy the simple lifestyle that I want to live.

I'll be happy to go anywhere that will take me, honestly.

A teleporter would be nice. There are lots of places I want to go, but getting there is a pain.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. -Chris McCandless

At eighteen, in a dream, he saw himself plodding through jungles, chinning up the ledges of cliffs, wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams. The peculiar thing about Everett Ruess was that he went out and did the things he dreamed about, not simply for a two-weeks' vacation in the civilized and trimmed wonderlands, but for months and years in the very midst of wonder...

I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.

Reuss would spend the remainder of his meteoric life on the move, living out of a backpack on very little money, sleeping in the dirt, cheerfully going hungry for days at a time.

We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.

A lot of us are like that—I'm like that, Ed Abbey was like that, and it sounds like this McCandless kid was like that: We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.

Nadie debería negar [...] que el nomadismo siempre nos ha estimulado y llenado de júbilo. En nuestro pensamiento, la condición de nómada está asociada a escapar de la historia, la opresión, la ley y las obligaciones agobiantes, a un sentimiento de libertad absoluta, y el camino del nómada siempre conduce hacia el oeste. Wallace Stegner, The American West as Living Space Carthage

I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

And by midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else.

The things of Scandinavia tend to be secret, as if they were a dream. The Last Voyage of Ulysses

My heart goes out to the playing and singing folk, the folk who are forever on the roads. Life is change; and to be seeing new wonders every day—the thrown sea, the silver rush of the meadow, the lights in distant towns—is to be living, and not merely existing. I pity the man who is content to stay always in the place where his mother dropped him; that is, unless his thoughts wander. For one might sit on a midden and dream stars!

If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: "That's where I wanted to go today!