Quotes About Exploration

He studied a roll, weighing it in his hand. It seemed awfully heavy. As good as the food had been so far, it didn't seem likely that it was underbaked, but he was not in the mood to choke down raw dough. He nibbled it dubiously, then bit into it with a great deal more enthusiasm when it proved to have sausage baked into the middle of it.

This is the real life of adventure: it always ends up as cold, mud, or bugs. Usually all three.

Imagination runs most surely over land that it knows.

Mais les vrais voyageurs sont ceux-là seuls qui partent Pour partir; coeurs légers, semblables aux ballons, De leur fatalité jamais ils ne s´écartent, Et, sans savoir pourquoi, disent toujours: Allons! Ceux-là dont les désirs ont la forme des nues, Et qui rêvent, ainsi qu´un conscrit le canon, Des vastes voluptés, changeantes, inconnues, Et dont l´esprit humain n´a jamais su le nom!

Say why not? rather than why?

Three words that are the beating heart behind why many explorers or adventurers do what they do. 'Because it's there.

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Tentative is no power.

The greatest journeys all start with a single step.

So suddenly here we are. Six years on. I genuinely never believed we would film more than six episodes of Man vs. Wild , let alone six seasons. I mean, where has the time gone? I also really had no idea quite how many hellholes, remote jungles, stinking swamps, searing deserts, and forbidding, unexplored mountain ranges we have on this small planet of ours. People forget. Me included.

We opened the door and looked at each other. Surprised. It was literally like stepping into a deep freeze. Old iron boats are like that in winter. The cold water around them means that, without heating, they are Baltically cold. We fumbled our way, still all wrapped up, into the bowels of the boat and the boiler room. Shara looked at me, then at the silent, cold boiler. No doubt she questioned how smart both choices had really been.

Base Camp, We need advice. ... We've run out of Earth

Our next test weekend was in a particularly hellish area of the Welsh mountains--remote, godforsaken, and full of even more boggy, ankle-twisting moon grass. The area became known affectionately by the other recruits as simply: "The asshole of the world.

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I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.

There's something delicious about writing those first few words of a story. You can never quite tell where they will take you. Mine took me here, where I belong.

He was sitting on a log; he sniffed the air and

He led the way to a very retired, dismal-looking house amongst the fox-gloves. It

Beatrix Potter

a time there were four little Rabbits

Of all Virginia Swan's extraordinary adventures on her first trip to New York City, this visit

I would like heterosexual women to be as actively curious about how and why and when they became heterosexual as I have been about how and why and when I became a Lesbian.

Living in the Kentucky hills was where I first learned the importance of being wild.

We have no choice but to scramble to retrace our steps and to try, in a hurry now, to imagine things differently: other worlds, other ways of thinking, living, seeing. Other ways of writing, and of reading.