What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the m….

New ways of seeing can disclose new things… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?.

To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth..

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote….

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one b….

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection..

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while..

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool..

Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law..

Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion..

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

Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited..

One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than t….

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find..

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't..

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right….

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. ….

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing..

A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end..

You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad..