Quotes About Exploration

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.

Se dice que una de las curas del amor, de las pocas curas, son los viajes

Un nicaragüense no se siente verdaderamente nicaragüense si no ha viajado. Aunque sea a Costa Rica. El nicaragüense adquiere su verdadera nacionalidad hasta que ha viajado".

Esse vagar sem rumo pelos caminhos de nossa Maiúscula América me transformou mais do que me dei conta.

There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly — not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things; the outer limits would suffice.

The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.

Perhaps one day tired of circling the world I'll return to Argentina and settle in the Andean lakes if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another.

They moved with the insouciance of those that have nothing to do, two aimless characters in search of a story that would deign to have them, but not in a hurry to commit to any particular type of narrative.

The biological function of art, in other words, is that of a rehearsal, a training in mental gymnastics which increases our tolerance of the unexpected.

It's bad idea to try to prevent people from knowing their own history. If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.

As an anarch, who acknowledges neither law nor custom, I owe it to myself to get at the very heart of things. I then probe them in terms of their contradictions, like image and mirror image. Either is imperfect – by seeking to unite them, which I practice every morning, I manage to catch a corner of reality.

A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.

Era una cosa bellissima un uomo che spiegava ai bambini i numeri, gli anni della storia, i posti della geografia. C'era una carta colorata del mondo, uno che non era mai uscito dalla città poteva conoscere l'Africa che era verde, il Polo Sud bianco, l'Australia gialla e gli oceani azzurri.

Mi accorgevo del corpo, del suo interno, accanto a lei: del battito del sangue a fior di polso, del rumore dell'aria nel naso, del traffico della macchina cuorepolmoni. Accanto al suo corpo esploravo il mio, calato nell'interno, sbatacchiato come il secchio nel pozzo.

En mer il n'y a pas de tavernes.

Leerlos (libros) se parecía a adentrarse en el mar con la barca, la nariz era la proa, las líneas, olas.

In ogni specie sono i solitari a tentare esperienze nuove. Sono una quota sperimentale che va alla deriva. Dietro di loro la traccia aperta si richiude.

Unico modo per arrivare alla scoperta del meglio è la libertà, libertà di aggruppamento, libertà di esperimento, libertà completa senz'altro limite sociale che quello dell'uguale libertà degli altri.

True creativity does not come easily; creativity is born of risk and refined from failure.

We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.

What a strange journey we embarked upon that afternoon, full of anguish and desire and wonder.

Everything is bizarre, and everything has value. Or if not value, at least merits investigation.

and the shortcuts through the woods that led to the next barrio where all sorts of pocavergüenzas took place.

The world is full of marvels, if you're willing to travel far enough to see them.