Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

I'm not just interested in fascinating faces or trees. I want to bore in deeper.

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.

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

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

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

You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

You must find your treasure in order to make sense of everything you discovered on the path.

The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.