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Quotes About Exploration

If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.
~ Barney Oliver
Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
~ David Attenborough
The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.
~ John Pomfret
I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
~ Harrison Salisbury
So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.
~ Richard Dean Anderson
If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.
~ Marc Newson
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.
~ Ryszard Kapuscinski
At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.
~ Cillian Murphy
People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
~ Gail Porter
Singing is my passion and I always wanted to travel the country.
~ Thia Megia
Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.
~ Rebecca Lobo
And my life for the first - you know, when I was in my 20s and 30s, I had my career, and I traveled the world, I lived out of a suitcase. I stayed up until dawn. I did all of those things that were very exciting.
~ Cheryl Tiegs
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
~ William Hazlitt
I'm 100% Norwegian. Three generations removed and all continuous inbreeding of Norwegian of Minnesota and Iowa, so I traveled to Norway before.
~ Eric Christian Olsen
'What comes next?' is the constant question I'm asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question.
~ Brin-Jonathan Butler
I traveled to a library in South Africa called ILAM (International Library of African Music), which has a collection of about 500 different instruments that don't really exist anymore.
~ Ludwig Goransson
I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.
~ Dominic Monaghan
I grew up on particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that. It was less about a career than finding the films I wanted to see.
~ Brad Pitt
He traveled in order to come home.
~ William Trevor
I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
~ Gary Player
I've traveled all over. I've been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy, I lived in the Philippines from nine to 12, and I had dog, monkey, lizard, everything. Then I was in Hawaii, and I'm spear-fishing, catching octopus with my hands.
~ Graham Elliot
I traveled so much as a child. When I was four, we moved to the Oman in the Middle East. We lived there for three years and I got to explore Oman, as well as many places around there.
~ Tate McRae
I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.
~ Brad Pitt
I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven.
~ Laurel Lea