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Quotes About Exploration

Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe?
~ Gregory Colbert
Every land has its own special rhythm, and unless the traveler takes the time to learn the rhythm, he or she will remain an outsider there always.
~ Juliette de Bairacli Levy
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
~ Pat Conroy
It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.
~ Janet Frame
Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.
~ Rick Steves
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
~ Mark Jenkins
A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.
~ Isabelle Eberhardt
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
~ Michael Palin
The journey itself is my home.
~ Bash? Matsuo
Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
~ Fanny Burney
A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.
~ Charles Simic
They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.
~ Horace
Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive
~ Robert M. Pirsig
The best education I have ever received was through travel.
~ Lisa Ling
Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.
~ Alex Garland, The Beach
Paris is always a good idea.
~ Audrey Hepburn
Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.
~ Rolf Potts
To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
~ Emily Dickinson
Once a year go someplace you've never been.
~ Dalai Lama
Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.
~ Sargent Shriver
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.
~ William Blake
We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
~ John Steinbeck