Quotes About Discovery

I think this land may bee profitable to those that will adventure it.

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

On the road again, goin' places that I've never been. Seein' things that I may never see again, and I can't wait to get on the road again.

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

Take the back roads instead of the highways.

If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect.

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

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

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.

Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.