Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Life is full of adventure. There's no such thing as a clear pathway.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Who's coming with me? I don't know where I'm going, but who's coming with me?

Uncharted territory is a good place to be in.

The adrenaline of being somewhere no one has ever been before is, or at least not for thousands of years, is quite extraordinary and by and large that overwhelms the feeling of personal terror.

Space is big. The whole point of the frontier is that we go there to do new things in new places - not one place, and not one thing, but all of the above.

For me, I have never walked a path that has been carefully crafted or charted. I have gone into territory unknown on many an occasion.

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

We're on a road to nowhere, come on inside. Takin' that ride to nowhere, we'll take that ride. I'm feelin' okay this mornin', and you know, we're on the road to paradise, here we go, here we go.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them.

I now walk into the wild.

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

I'm an explorer.

There's nothing like the vast, dark Atlantic to remind you of your mortality. But terror can also be exhilarating.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.