Quotes About Exploration

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).

I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.

for many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.

The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

I love travel because you may be uncomfortable, hungry, hot and sweaty, cold and shivering…but damn it, you will never be bored.

A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.

I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

Dare to walk the path that others have feared to travel, and a leader shall then be born.

I need to sing and I love to travel.

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.

Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come.

I would love to get an international version of Riding Shotgun going, because that's what I've been angling at ever since I wanted to do a travel show in the first place.

It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.

I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple.

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.