J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

I now walk into the wild.

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

I love the leisurely amplitude, the spaciousness, of taking a walk, of heading somewhere, anywhere, on foot. I love the sheer adventure of it: setting out and taking off.

I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I love to travel, anywhere in the world. Wherever it is... India... Tibet... wherever. I'll go anywhere.

I've always been an adventurer, an explorer.

Spontaneity is what travel is all about.

Being on the road is very inspiring.

I would love to do something that takes me on an adventure. I really want to do it all.

I like to travel, and I'm always ready for a new experience.

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America is an adventure, I will go on this adventure with Waltz as a skillful, faithful, compass-true guide. I love this book.

Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.