Quotes About Discovery

The dubious achievement in travel these days is enduring the persistent nuisance of a succession of airports in order to arrive at a distant place for a brief interlude of the exotic

A viagem é muito mais recompensadora quando deixa de ter que ver com a nossa chegada a um destino e se torna indistinguível de vivermos a nossa vida.

I wanted to find a new self in a distant place, and new things to care about.

In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

On that trip it was my good fortune to be wrong; being mistaken is the essence of the traveler's tale.

I decided that travel was flight and pursuit in equal parts

And yet on that bench at Jacobacci, I was glad I had left everyone else behind. Although this was a town with a main street and a railway station, and people with dogs and electric lights it was near enough to the end of the earth to give me the impression that I was a solitary explorer in a strange land. That illusion (which was an illusion in the South Pole and at the headwaters of the Nile) was enough of a satisfaction to me to make me want to go forward.

was to discover that this detail mattered: a low tide allows migrants to splash more easily around the fence and sprint up the oily beach into the American thickets.

Texas A&M International

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere if you're not in a hurry.

was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere; sightseeing

It is fatal to know too much at the outset. Boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

Travel had to do with movement and truth, with trying everything, offering yourself to experience and then reporting it.

Paul Theroux

the journey is the goal.

On November 2, 1492, in Cuba, Christopher Columbus saw an Arawak man puffing on rolled tobacco leaves, a European's first glimpse of smoking.

every trip is unique.

Pimsa," Héctor said, passing the industrial park. "What's that?

Tourists don't know where they've been. Travelers don't know where they're going.

Paul Theroux

Africa had been deliverance for me, a liberating embrace and an opportunity.

What I saw, what I experienced, the freedom of the trip, the people I met, the things I learned: my days were filled with road candy.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace

Travel holds the magical possibility of reinvention: that you might find a place you love, to begin a new life and never go home.