Quotes About Exploration

She knew that Fort Lamy was a long way away, on the other side of the Sahara, in the middle of Africa — another world. Another world — and that was exactly what she needed. There at last she would be able to satisfy her need for warmth — even at Tunis there were moments when the cold was more than she could take.

il se demandait parfois jusqu'où on pouvait aller nulle part.

The more you travel, the better you get at it. It sounds silly, but with experience you learn how to pack the right way. I remember one of my first trips abroad, travelling around Europe by rail, fresh out of high school. I brought all these books with me and a paint set. I really had too much stuff, so I've learnt to be more economical.

Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.

To wander is to be alive.

People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I've been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it's the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.

Just as a painter paints, and a ponderer ponders, a writer writes, and a wanderer wanders.

I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.

It was a time I slept in many rooms, called myself by many names. I wandered through the quarters of the city like alluvium wanders the river banks. I knew every kind of joy, ascents of every hue. Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.

When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs.

When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess.

She called herself Europa, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself Europa, and her god was Beauty.

When lovers are in love, they don't diminish. When wanderers wander, they do not diminish. The world lays itself out beautiful before them; a rich tapestry to explore; with love in abundance. But for this, a wanderer must be favored by Fortune. Fortune is not "riches," it is "Poetic Beauty" that comes by surprise!—like a ship coming in from Dover…

In my errant life, I roamed to learn the secrets of women and men, of gods and dreams.

pero en la que se encuentra la

Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.

Captain Marryat's

Time moves more slowly when you're young, because life is still new to you, a process of discovery.

I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.

A dog is more than the canine animal. A dog is everywhere you go together, every living creature you meet along the way, and the human you become with your canine

I fancy there's a new one: Notes on the Tedium of Places-comprising almost everywhere.

Questions can excite, disturb, discipline, or comfort, but they always stimulate inquiry.