Kent Nerburn Quotes

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

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

I want to be in places I've never been before.

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.

When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?

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

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and delights.

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

'Narnia' has opened my eyes to a lot of things. I feel lucky that I'm able to travel; I'm not stuck in my hometown, meeting the same kind of girls and saying hi to the same people, week after week. There are so many interesting, intelligent girls out there.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

I love to travel. I'm a curious person.

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

The unknown is always interesting.

I'm an explorer.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?