Robert Ballard Quotes

People dig exploration.

Every part of the country has its story to tell, so I'm always looking for the next place to be.

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey. I suppose this has to do with my need to leave no stone unturned, and sometimes to even dig deeper into the mine.

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 have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

Over the years, I've traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.

I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest in 1953, when I was 10 years old, I thought, 'Well, that's pretty much it now.' But the idea of travelling and exploring and adventure was very strong.

I like looking for things on tour.

I hope that we continue with exploration.

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

I hope that you, too, will choose to have a journey instead of just a life. Actually, I hope it's a full on expedition.

I'm going on an adventure!

I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say

I think the only thing I knew for sure is that I wanted to, whatever I did, I wanted to travel with my work, an adventurous spirit.

Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I'm an explorer.

So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.

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.