Christopher McCandless Quotes

Oh, the places you will go.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.

One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

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 love to travel. I'm a curious person.

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

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

My normal life is I love to travel, and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place too long. But I'm an avid reader, I guess you could say: I'm a bit of a bookworm.

I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel a lot, and now there are other different, invisible trains that are more interesting to me.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

When I was younger, shopping helped me discover many new places and many new things.

My normal life is, I love to travel and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place too long. But I'm an avid reader; I guess you could say I'm a bit of a bookworm.

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.