Jon Krakauer Quotes

I like to move around. I travel. I've driven across country by myself.

I can't stay in one place for too long.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.

I love to move around. I'm not a person who likes to stay in the same place all the time.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

I'm sort of a gypsy at heart and don't like to stay in one place too long.

I've been travelling all my life.

Ramblin' was in my blood.

People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.

Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Traveling isn't something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing.

Every change of place becomes a delight.

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.

We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage

Restless at home, and ever prone to range.

The thing is, I'm a gypsy; I love travelling!

I enjoy moving. I like to be in a new place. Settling down doesn't appeal to me much. I like the whole business of it. And I love the first night in the new place.

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 love not having a daily routine, just having the things I need with me and going anywhere in the world.