Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it. When you travel, you put yourself out there. It's not always great. Sometimes it's terrible. But other times ... [...] It's not so bad.

It is exciting to be off to a new land with a new friend.

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.

A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don't know what you're going to find.

Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.

The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.

Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the sea!

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

You will travel in a Land of Marvels

You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes.

He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

The true voyagers are those who go for the sake of traveling . . . and without quite knowing why, they say, 'Let us depart!'.

I beg young people to travel.