Joseph Jacobs Quotes

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

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.

Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.

I now walk into the wild.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

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

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

Not all those who wander are lost.

The journey is my home.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

'The Magus,' usually described as a book for the young, is about learning that the world is a mysterious and limitless place, beyond our control, and all the more exciting - and daunting - because of it.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

We were very scared. Going to America was almost like going to the moon.

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!

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.

But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.

Life is a journey through a foreign land.