I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

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.

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

I love traveling all over the world; but it’s true: there’s nothing like home.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‚third force,‘ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.

When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d’Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don’t know what will happen. This pressure is inside you – you always have it.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

China is a great manufacturing center, but it’s actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial – more advanced industrial centers – Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe – and it basically assembles them.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

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.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.