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Quotes About Exploration

My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.
~ Walt Whitman
The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
~ Mike Tyson
To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
~ John Muir
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
~ Anthony Bourdain
There are three very good reasons to travel: 1. See the world. 2. Meet new people. 3. Room service.
~ Linda Sunshine
There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.
~ Paul Theroux
I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on.
~ Chris Harrison
I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.
~ Ann Beattie
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
~ Anatole France
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
~ Antonio Porchia
I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
~ Tatjana Patitz
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
~ Bernard M. Oliver
I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.
~ Karlie Kloss
Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldnt seated in the confines of your home.
~ Imtiaz Ali
The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
~ Patti Smith
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
~ Henry David Thoreau
When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.
~ Nelson Mandela
My laptop has freed me to travel.
~ Steven Pinker
I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.
~ Hermann Hesse
It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.
~ Ray Bradbury
Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
~ Cameron Diaz
I tramp a perpetual journey.
~ Walt Whitman
An English man does not travel to see English men.
~ Laurence Sterne