Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
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.
At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.
On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.
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. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.
Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.
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 mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it.
The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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 of sources.
The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
New ways of seeing can disclose new things But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
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 the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.
...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?
Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.
Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.
The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.
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