Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

People always travel no matter what.

Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the dry air feels light. A northerly wind stirs a primal urge to move. The geese feel it, and so do I. Perhaps it is a last internal vestige from a time, long ago, when we migrated with the seasons across open plains, following the animals we pursued for food. Perhaps that is why the sight of migrating geese arrests our attention, why we feel the pull. We want to go, to travel in fresh or moody weather, taking in each newly revealed vista.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

I rode 300 miles through the forest and ate all sorts of strange food. And every time 'Torak' did something new, like swimming with killer whales or kayaking, I thought I'd better go and do it.

I like marketplaces. I like train stations; I like being in trains. I like airports. I like walking down the street with a pen in my hand, writing, writing, writing.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

The birds never needed passports... We always thought, the birds can go wherever they want, and we couldn't, really. The birds were very much the symbol of... free movement for me.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

You know, I go around the country a lot.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

I moved south when I was 11 years old, moved to England. I've lived in all kinds of places, all parts of England.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I do get around. Geographically, that is.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me wherever I go.

Your people do not seem to like the place where they live and always want to be on the move going someplace else.