Natalie Goldberg Quotes

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Life is a journey I don't have a map for.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.

I guess we’ll be traveling in uncharted waters.” “That’ll be fun,” Phil said.

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

We're on a road to nowhere, come on inside. Takin' that ride to nowhere, we'll take that ride. I'm feelin' okay this mornin', and you know, we're on the road to paradise, here we go, here we go.

Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

Life is a journey through a foreign land.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.