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Quotes About Discovery

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.
~ Nancy Mitford
Like love, travel makes you innocent again.
~ Diane Ackerman
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
~ Agnes Repplier
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
~ A. A. Milne
A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
~ Stephen Hawking
I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.
~ Elvis Costello
Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.
~ Benjamin Carson
Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.
~ Lionel Richie
We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.
~ Ray Bradbury
Having traveled initially to get away, ultimately we travel to come home.
~ Mary-Lou Weisman
Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
~ Isaac Watts
I think I'm going to Katmandu, that's really, really where I'm going to
~ Bob Seger
Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.
~ Abigail Washburn
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far, far away-what you last met at home.
~ Cynthia Ozick
Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.
~ Sara Genn
Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven't seen.
~ Mark Hertsgaard
I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
~ Henry David Thoreau
People move around so much in the world, things get lost.
~ Emma Donoghue, Room
I like to travel any chance I get, even if it's just a local vacation to San Diego or Palm Springs or wherever. I just like to get out and do stuff and see the world.
~ Christa B. Allen
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.
~ Pico Iyer
I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.
~ Gloria Whelan, See What I See
Let our road be long, let it be very long, let it be very very long and in fact let our road be infinite! Travel means flow, flow means life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world bigger.
~ Julian Smith