Quotes About Exploration

You can start locally. Upturn a glass on a map and centre it on your home. Then draw a ring around the rim and explore that circle so you know it like the back of your hand. All travel gifts memories, and spontaneity has a place.

Careful planning and preparation guarantees powerful experiences.

I looked forwards to the flight deck. The door was open and I could see the pilot and co-pilot toasting each other with glasses of vodka. In the context of where we were going, this felt completely normal.

More of us should try turning a break into a proper adventure with a healthy dose of purpose and meaning. It almost guarantees a lifetime of memories. You could follow a river from source to sea or start a trip in one location and then head to another, exploring along the way.

We are often sold a vision of the world as a dangerous and frightening place. In reality the world is friendly and astonishingly hospitable.

think the real Golden Age of travel is actually now, when it is cheaper and safer than ever. It's also a guaranteed way of tingling your senses, enhancing your life and gifting you a huge stock of memories, encounters and experiences.

If the style of my programmes was to be inspired by anyone else, I thought it had to be, of course, the great Michael Palin.

Dreams were invented by Angels to test out their beta programs.

All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.

Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.

a stiff breeze had claimed Athens, filling bedrooms, rearranging the tops of desks, touching everything and nothing, as if searching for something it no longer recognized.

I want to experience the world. How can I be sure if my place on earth is supposed to be here or there, if I have never gone to there? I know all about here, am literally bored shitless with it. What if there, is better?

But there was something about walking

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Playing with fire doesn't necessarily get you burned.

he would ask me a thousand little questions, just, he said, to sound out the future a little.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

It's like being lost, and coming on an old wagon trail. You don't know where it leads, how long or why it's been abandoned, but at least it's a trail.

Our search for others might be of success, if we are going to go deep up there with a transparent vehicle and look for an indigo color.

We get lost first before we find the direction to our destiny.

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum.

The road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. However, if you choose to achieve something that no one has ever done, then you will have a satisfaction that no one else has ever had.