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Quotes About Exploration

Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on
~ Bob Dylan
Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
~ Terence McKenna
I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.
~ Isabelle Eberhardt
Don't LIVE the same year 75 times and call it a Life
~ Robin Sharma
There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.
~ William Least Heat-Moon
Vagabonding is about not merely reallotting a portion of your life for travel but rediscovering the entire concept of time.
~ Rolf Potts
We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.
~ Emile Ganest
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
~ Mason Cooley
Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddharta
We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart.
~ Phil Cousineau
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
~ John Keats
I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.
~ Philip Pullman
Be the inner journeys, be the outer travels, all trips elevate man, all voyages lift him up!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else
~ Miriam
For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.
~ William Wordsworth
Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.
~ Eudora Welty
To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.
~ Paulo Coelho
I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.
~ Muhammad Ali
I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.
~ Patrick Troughton
Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography
~ Henry David Thoreau
In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
~ Samuel Johnson