Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
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Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
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 there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.
NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.
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