Charles Darwin 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.

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 world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air.

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

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.

The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.

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.

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

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

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.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.

Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.