Dorothea Dix Quotes

I want to see and taste and experience it all, I am curious by nature. I would actually really love to go to New Zealand.

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.

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

The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.

What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?

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.

At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.

A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.

The world is my workshop. It is not my home.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

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

I just want pieces of the world.

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

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

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.

Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.