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Quotes About Discovery

The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The world's pretty trippy. I just like to travel around and see what's out there.
~ Aaron Bruno
I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
~ A. A. Milne
Time travel is possible. Will explain later
~ Jose Canseco
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.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I love road trips, I love driving, I love finding little towns. I just think it's the best way to travel.
~ Scarlett Johansson
The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.
~ Terry Pratchett
Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.
~ Paul Theroux
Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
~ Felix Baumgartner
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
~ Stephen Fry
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
~ Ella Maillart
I think I am a travel junkie and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
~ Imtiaz Ali
Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me
~ Elvis Presley
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home.
~ Spalding Gray
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
~ Alan Watts
It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.
~ Stephen A. Schwarzman
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
~ Lord Chesterfield
I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
I love to travel, don't like the getting there 'planes' but love it when I arrive.
~ Danny O'Donoghue
Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.
~ Jonathan Raban
Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
~ Cynthia Ozick
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
~ John Steinbeck