Percival Lowell Quote

From time immemorial travel and discovery have called with strange insistence to him who, wandering on the world, felt adventure in his veins. The leaving familiar sights and faces to push forth into the unknown has with magnetic force drawn the bold to great endeavor and fired the thought of those who stayed at home.

Mars and Its Canals, Chapter I (p. 3), Houghton Mifflin Company. 1895