Quotes About Exploration

Even graffiti above a tunnel can begin a journey that never ends.

Suddenly, it seems ridiculous that we just came from a city airport named for Columbus, a terrible navigator who insisted to his dying day that he was in India—which is why people here are called Indians. As the Native women in Houston said, "It could have been worse—he could have thought he was in Turkey.

As we started on our journey, I noticed that without possessions, I felt oddly free.

It's time to leave - there is so much out there to do and say and listen to.

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there. Wherever

American travel seems to need an advocate.

We learn where we know the least.

Now when I'm asked with condescension why I don't drive, I just say: Beacause adventure starts the moment I leave my door.

As novelist Margaret Atwood wrote to explain women's absence from quest-for-identity novels, "there's probably a simple reason for this: send a woman out alone on a rambling nocturnal quest and she's likely to end up a lot deader a lot sooner than a man would.

read Plato or Shakespeare or Dante as if we found their books in the street and had no idea who they were. I

every trip, my pockets full of scribbled notes about new events. Altogether I might never have had the will or the way to do any of the things that matter most to me, had it not been for just being Out There. Taking to the road—by which I mean letting the road take you—changed who I thought I was. The road is messy

Evolution intended us to be travelers….Settlement for any length of time, in cave or castle, has at best been…a drop in the ocean of evolutionary time.

laughter is a mark of wanderers

When new people guide us, we see a new country.

We learn most where we know the least. For

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.

Go far to go far.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Der Mensch muss bei dem Glauben verharren, dass das Unbegreifliche befreidlich sei; er würde sonst nicht forschen.

M? întorc în mine însumi ?i g?sesc o lume!

I go back into myself and find a whole world!