Thor Heyerdahl Quotes

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I'm an explorer.

I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.

One makes a trip by day, but by night, one sets out on a journey.

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.

Go and travel thither to inhabit or remain there, to build and fortify … take and lead in the same voyages with him … such and so many of our subjects as shall willingly accompany him…

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

We humans were built for exploration, and we were built to do it together.

I went to South America with the idea that I would be an explorer, that I'd find lost tribes, become one of them, marry the chief's daughter and find riches of gold.

I believe in exploration, and I will miss being on the front lines of that endeavor. On one hand, I look forward to going home, but it's something that's been a big part of my life, and I'm going to miss it.

Books of exploration have always fascinated me, like somebody going up the Amazon for the first time.

I hope that we continue with exploration.

I'm very excited to be able to take the Jungle Kitty experience to different places and travel with it and meet all the different jungle kitties out there.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest?