A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.
They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.
You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying around overhead. I love the sky's unbroken solitude. I don't like to think of it cluttered up by aircraft, as roads are cluttered up by cars. I feel like the western pioneer when he saw barbed-wire fence lines encroaching on his open plains. The success of his venture brought the end of the life he loved.
To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.
You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.
The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.
Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.
The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.
I found out long ago, it's a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road.
The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.
. . . we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.
Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.
Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.
I travel all the time, and I have two small children.
Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.
Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else