Mark Hertsgaard Quotes

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.

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

He that travels much knows much.

Travel teaches as much as books.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

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

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

One must travel, to learn.

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.

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.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge.

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

It's a business driven by curiosity. If you don't want to go out and learn about the world and see the place, it's the wrong business. But if you do... I've had an unbelievable front row seat.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.