Mary Oliver Quotes

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

I have to have the wheel. It's given me an opportunity to experience and explore things.

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

I do like not knowing where I'm going, wandering in strange woods, whistling and following bread crumbs.

I love to be free to explore, research, and evolve.

I have traveled the world by myself.

I've been on my own and traveling for years now.

It's such a liberating feeling to go out of your comfort zone, to be independent and strike out on my own without my parents.

Wherever the wind blows me, I'll go! My eventual goal is to have enough experience to produce something on my own.

There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It's a unique experience and one that is so self-educating.

Sometimes I sneak out into the streets alone, like Princess Jasmine in 'Aladdin.'

Traditional alpinism is to go where the others are not going and to be self-reliant.

A tourist follows a trail; a mountaineer finds one.