Quotes About Exploration

The steward just asked me if I was not afraid to travel alone, and I said, "Why, it is life.

It is by examining very bare, very dull, very unpromising things, that modern science has come to be what it is.

After all, the original way of writing books may turn out to be the best. The first author, it is plain, could not have taken anything from books, since there were no books for him to copy from; he looked at things for himself.

It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford.

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.

Travel is the last fantasy the 2Oth Century left us, the delusion that going somewhere helps you reinvent yourself.

I began to count the pools, each a flare of turquoise light lost behind the high walls of the villas with their screens of cycads and bougainvillaea. Ten thousand years in the future, long after the Côte d'Azur had been abandoned, the first explorers would puzzle over these empty pits, with their eroded frescoes of tritons and stylized fish, inexplicably hauled up the mountainsides like aquatic sundials or the altars of a bizarre religion devised by a race of visionary geometers.

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

Isn't it curious that ever since man has walked, no one has asked why he walks, or how, or if he could improve his walking, or what he does when he walks, whether one could not impose his walking, change or scrutinize it—issues that are integral to all the philosophical, psychological or political systems that have occupied the world?

To saunter is a science; it is the gastronomy of the eye. To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live.

Thus we are brought to the third circle of this hell, which, perhaps, will some day find its Dante.

If you--or anyone on this train, for that matter--thought of life as a kind of train, instead of worrying only about your usual destinations, you'd be surprised how far you could go, just with the money you have in your wallet right now.

Perhaps it's because she spends all her time sleeping—she comes and goes just as she pleases in the world of her dreams, she's free to go anywhere she wants. And that gives her access to much more information than people have who are up all the time.

Dream kitchens. I will have countless ones, in my heart or in reality. Or in my travels. Alone, with a crowd of people, with one other person—in all the many places I will live. I know that there will be so many more.

I was tied by blood to no creature in this world. I could go anywhere, do anything. It was dizzying.

I like people who are always doing things that would never have occurred to me at that moment.

I've traveled a long way today, I often think to myself.

Potevo andare in qualunque posto, fare qualunque cosa. Stavo toccando con mano e vedendo con i miei occhi quanto fosse immenso il mondo e profonda l'oscurità e l'infinito fascino e solitudine di tutto ciò.

No había nadie en el mundo de mi misma sangre, y así, me era posible ir a cualquier lugar y hacer cualquier cosa. Era magnífico.

We created something a little closer to perfection than ourselves; maybe that's the only way to progress. Let them try to do the same.

You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.

Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.

I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.