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Quotes About Exploration

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
~ Thornton Wilder, Our Town
A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.
~ Bill Gaede
Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.
~ Will Steger
Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
~ Werner Herzog
With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.
~ Judith M Bardwick
we can't know a road until we travel it. Hearing about it is not enough. We are obliged to travel over it.
~ Virginia Cary Hudson
From the moment you decide to go somewhere, until the time you return, there are about 47 different points of abuse that are awaiting you.
~ Peter Greenberg
He that would travel much, should eat little.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.
~ Robert Breault
I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.
~ Robert Runcie
When you # travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of # rebirth .
~ Paulo Coelho
I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.
~ Rick Steves
Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.
~ Helen Van Slyke
I learn much more by traveling by myself.
~ Roberto Cavalli
I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.
~ Henry Rollins
Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.
~ David Mitchell
Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell
~ Libba Bray
Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing. . . . It is all rather rot.
~ Richard van der Riet Woolley
But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.
~ Harry Chapin
The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
~ Alain de Botton
The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.
~ Anderson Cooper
Travel should rub off Local Prejudices and provide an enlarged and impartial view of Men and Things.
~ Josiah Tucker
The more you travel, the better you get at it.
~ Roman Coppola
The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.
~ Freya Stark