To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

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.

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

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

I love driving my car on any highway.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

I’m a Bangalore boy.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Anyone who’s traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: ‚War,‘ by Sebastian Junger.

London is a roost for every bird.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

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.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

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

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It’s on a rocky hill overlooking the bush, and from your room, you can see lions stalking zebras by the waterhole.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

If I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

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.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

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

You learn a lot from traveling around.

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

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

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

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

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

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.