Quotes About Expedition

Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.

Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.

The fundamental thing for anybody, any relationship or any expedition or anything is communication.

An account of an expedition is not a novel. Therefore an authentic account can never be given, let alone written down by someone who was not present.

Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.

A good expedition doesn't need a leader at all. You are deciding day by day, discussing it in a democratic way.

The excitement lies in the exploration of the world around us.

There's no exploration anymore, except in a very few places.

I like to explore things.

It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.

The eternal silence of the great white desert. Cloudy columns of snow drift advancing from the south, pale yellow wraiths, heralding the coming storm, blotting out one by one the sharp-cut lines of the land.

After lunch, and Evans still not appearing, we looked out, to see him still afar off. By this time we were alarmed, and all four started back on ski. I was first to reach the poor man and shocked at his appearance; he was on his knees with clothing disarranged, hands uncovered and frostbitten, and a wild look in his eyes.

The attitude of the men is equally worthy of admiration...there is a rush to be first when work is to be done, and the same desire to sacrifice selfish consideration to the success of the expedition...Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.

in truth there's only one story. In essence we have told one another the same tale, one way or another, since the dawn of humanity, and that story could be usefully called the Quest. All stories take the form of a Quest.

Perhaps Nansen, or at least the name of his ship, owed something to Verne as well. Jules Verne, the great French pioneer of science fiction, had also shown interest in the Arctic. Some thirty years earlier, he had published The English at the North Pole, in which there figured an expedition ship called Forward – of which Fram, naturally, was the Norwegian equivalent.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

E' venuto scendendo il Rio Paracatè su una zattera di burití...

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.

Open country was easily reached in those days.

It took me six years going to the Amazon, three months at a time, to actually track down the arapaima. That's commonly said to be the biggest fresh-water fish in the world. Nobody knows for sure, but a lot of people think so.