Joan D. Vinge Quotes

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

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

I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment.

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

I now walk into the wild.

When I was young, I was everywhere.

Not all those who wander are lost.

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.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

The most adventurous I've been was doing Raleigh International when I was 20.

If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

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.

Every single journey that I've embarked on, I've learned something new.

When I was younger I dreamt of intrepid travel and whenever I had some time off I wanted to scuba dive. Nowadays I'm a bit more relaxed but I'd still like to do an Amazonian trek.

Journey is my life now.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

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.

So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.