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Quotes About Exploration

A wise man travels to discover himself.
~ James Russell Lowell
Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
~ Saadi
The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.
~ Rosita Forbes
The first step... shall be to lose the way.
~ Galway Kinnell
Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.
~ Carol Lynn Pearson
Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
~ Agatha Christie
Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.
~ Socrates
A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.
~ Tim Cahill
To shut your eyes is to travel.
~ Emily Dickinson
It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
~ Edna Ferber, Gigolo
I just want to say I've been lucky enough to travel all over the world and every time I come back to Manchester I'm addicted to this place.
~ Niall Horan
I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.
~ Bill Bryson
Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
~ Jack Kerouac
Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.
~ Jerry Smith
I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.
~ Juliet Stevenson
A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
~ William Least Heat-Moon
Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.
~ Paul Fussell
Stuff your eyes with wonder.
~ Ray Bradbury
Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.
~ Michael Palin
The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
~ Paul Fussell
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
~ Jules Verne
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Im obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, Id love to go to space.
~ Sam Heughan
To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.
~ Albert Einstein