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Quotes About Exploration

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.
~ Philip K. Dick
I feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.
~ Dakota Fanning
I'm an equestrian, so I like to ride. Ride horses, I love to hike with my dog, love to travel. Most recently I went to Costa Rica, which I loved.
~ Kristanna Loken
Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.
~ David Byrne
Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
~ Isaac Watts
I think I'm going to Katmandu, that's really, really where I'm going to
~ Bob Seger
Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.
~ Abigail Washburn
Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.
~ Sara Genn
Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven't seen.
~ Mark Hertsgaard
I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.
~ Zach Anner
I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.
~ Lord Byron
I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I like to travel any chance I get, even if it's just a local vacation to San Diego or Palm Springs or wherever. I just like to get out and do stuff and see the world.
~ Christa B. Allen
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.
~ Guillermo del Toro
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.
~ Pico Iyer
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.
~ Sara Sheridan
I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.
~ Gloria Whelan, See What I See
It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?
~ Lesley Howarth, MapHead: No.2
Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world bigger.
~ Julian Smith
Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.
~ Michael Scott
No one should be required to see America for the first time.
~ Ashley Montagu
People who travel are always fugitives.
~ Daphne du Maurier