Quotes About Exploration

But, truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

I travel to find obstacles, to discover my limits, to ease the passage of time

Many travelers are essentially fantasists. Tourists are timid fantasists, the others - risk takers - are bold fantasists.

drove up the road and into the foothills to Huayapam, a simple drive, my car bouncing on the speed bumps, the topes and corrugations.

All serious travelers arrive at this doubting, why-bother juncture, stalling on the road, sometime or other.

to be anonymous and traveling in an interesting place is an intoxication

within walking distance of every historical sight, and it provided a garage where my car would not be stolen or vandalized.

My ideal traveler is the person who goes the old, laborious way into the unknown, and it is this belief that lies behind my travel, and drives me.

Adventure is the unexpected experience of discovery, of course; but it is also a kind of death, an end of innocence.

I decided to drive straight to Tijuana to make a slow, uninterrupted traverse of the entire frontera, a road trip from west to east, San Ysidro, California, to Brownsville, Texas, which was also Tijuana to Matamoros, zigzagging from the United States to Mexico and back, from one border town to the other.

All journeys were return journeys

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck

The true hero of the American utopia is neither the cowboy nor the soldier, but the pioneer, the pathfinder, the person who 'takes his body, where his eyes have been'.

When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck.

Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.

Don't think about what you've left behind The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.

Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

Love can take us to heaven or hell, but it always takes us somewhere. Therefore, be prepared to travel...

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.