I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

I’m crepuscular.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Nature has always had more force than education.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

I love the sea.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

I’m a wandering gypsy.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Adventures are to the adventurous.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

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.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Not all those who wander are lost.

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It’s an unfortunate parallel to human behavior – they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.