8 Jules Verne Quotes About Nature and Travel

Quotes that will Make you Want to go Around the World in 80 Days

Jules Verne, master of steampunk, born February 8th 1828 was a French novelist and poet. He is best known for his profound influence on science-fiction and for being the writer of the first ever steampunk novels. He knew a thing or two about science, and he knew a thing or two about nature and the world we live in too.

Jules Verne was a wonderful wordsmith his musings on the natural world make you want to pack up and go travelling. Quite extraordinary when you discover that he never left France at all during his life. Here are some of our favourite quotes about nature and the natural world to mark the author’s birthday.

“The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.”

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions, man is powerless.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot – travel all the same!

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

How much further can we go? What are the final frontiers in this quest for travel? Will humankind only be satisfied when journeys into space become readily available and affordable?