Quotes About Exploration

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.

All of life is a foreign country.

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

I do travel a lot, because I need oxygen, I need to go to places to meet people who aren't upset at me because I'm asking for peace.

The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor