Quotes About Exploration

There's a lot of 'ancestor tourism': and people will go back to Ireland to touch ground and have a pint in the same place where their forefathers once did whatever their forefathers did, and there's a real strong idea that we connect to the place once we get there.

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.

In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.

I think you're going to see an interest in space tourism, space travel for the sake of travel.

Goa isn't just about tourism and happy faces.

The Moon! Mars! Asteroids! Rockets! Helium 3! Space solar power! Space tourism! We go through fads, swarm around the hero de jour, and spend far too much time trashing the other guy's ideas in favor of our own.

And I'm glad that Macao Government Tourism Office offered me an opportunity to explore and experience Macao - the country best known for its heritage, food, culture, and festivals across the world.

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

The one good thing about jet lag when you fly to the United States is that you wake up so madly early, you can beat everyone else to the big tourist attractions and miss the queues.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

My wife is a much better tourist than me.

Ninety per cent of the tourists climbing big mountains are on 10 mountains - and one million mountains in the world are empty.

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

I'm not a good tourist, I don't like tourism.

Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite grown accustomed to tourists. You still feel a genuineness that no longer exists in countries where tourism has been industrially developed.

Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.

I'm like a tourist when I'm in London.

The sheeplike nature of travel - being on a beach with thousands of other people is not my idea of fun. I also don't like being a tourist because you don't know what's really going on in a country.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

Like many other tourists, I'm afraid I fell in love with Paris at first sight.

I like arriving somewhere and taking a left when someone tells you to go right. When all the tourist signs are pointing one way, it's exciting to go the other.

In Porto, it's a tourist city. It's close to the river, the ocean as well. There's a lot of history.

The way you get to explore a city when you are on shoot is so different from when you are there as a tourist.