Quotes About Discovery

Put yourself in the way of beauty.

Cheryl Strayed

We're all just walking and walking and walking and trying to find our way, that all roads lead eventually to the mountaintop.

Travel by foot. There is so much you can't identify at top speed.

mysterious starlight that guided you this far guide you onward into whatever crazy beauty awaits.

You can learn along the way.

More things are learnt in the woods than from books; trees and rocks will teach you things not to be heard elsewhere. You will see for yourselves that honey may be gathered from stones and oil from the hardest rock. . . . St. Bernard of Clairvaux

he found nothing but a matchbook from a motel in Liberal, Kansas.

We can venture forth into the great primordial stone swamp." "Interesting return address." She puckered up her face. "Better than writing Washington, D.C., on your letters.

He had not put the light over the garage door on, or the porch light on, or any outside light. They would be visible from the road. He had the crazy idea that light would draw attention to him, could somehow be a magnet for someone (who? the cops? the ASPCA? St. Francis of Assisi?) to discover what he'd done. That was the last thing he needed now.

I want to see a bit more of New York, even though it's snowing and cold.

Ali por uns segundos tive a sensação de haver desembarcado em país de língua desconhecida, o que para mim era sempre uma sensação boa, era como se a vida fosse partir do zero.

Mal tinha chegado ao país e queria encontrar todas as portas abertas ou explodi-las a dinamite. Eu já sabia que as portas estavam apenas encostadas. Talvez amanhã eu me visse eventualmente perdido num labirinto de 700portas.

Custei a aprender que para conhecer uma cidade, melhor que percorrê-la em ônibus de dois andares é se fechar num aposento dentro dela. Não é fácil, e eu sabia que entrar em Budapeste não seria fácil.

If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door.

And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.

We can seek, we can find, if we open our minds.

The only way to get back to them is to go somewhere else; and that is the real object of travel and the real pleasure of holidays. Do you suppose that I go to France in order to see France? Do you suppose that I go to Germany in order to see Germany? I shall enjoy them both; but it is not them that I am seeking... The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

But the walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day. If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life. Think of a man's swinging dumbbells for his health, when those springs are bubbling up in far-off pastures unsought by him!

Hiking is just walking where it's okay to pee.

I was learning then that the terrible thing about being a writer is that you don't decide to be one, you discover that you are one.

But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.