Quotes About Exploration

This contact with the overpowering is her first encounter with travel's disconcerting ability to strip the hard shell of habit from the heart, leaving only the bare, fertile kernel.

One goes wherever one is still admitted. Someone told me that I might be able to get a visa for Haiti or San Domingo here.

Sadece adayi gormekle Ä°ngiltere'yi tanimis olmazsiniz." demisti bana. "En az bir kez olsun uzaklasmadiysaniz , uzerinde yasadigimiz kitayi da anlayamazsiniz. ...

Vücudu dalgalara b?rakmadan önce ayak uçlar?n? yoklayarak suya deÄŸdirirken duyulan o h???rt?l? soÄŸukluÄŸun sinirli ürpertisini duymuÅŸtu.

Zweig hace resucitar una vez más la figura trágica del capitán Scott, que nos mostró que en el hundimiento hay gloria y que puede otorgarse vida a otros mientras uno pierde la suya propia.

The truths that he finds may in the coming months or even the coming years be truths no more. He must be forever searching. Thus is born a multitude of contradictions. Now he appears an Epicurean, now a Stoic, now a sceptic.

He has no defined destination. All roads are open to his "pensée vagabonde".

In this manner I had convinced myself more vividly than by mere strolling about how much room, how much opportunity there was in this young country for anyone willing to work, and that impressed me.

Unknown and unsuspected tender zones of feeling- but also, it must be admitted, very dangerous ones!

But I don't really know where to go. I have no plans and no destination in mind - I feel I can't live in either of my two worlds...

Montaigne's greatest pleasure is in the search, not the discovery.

Jusqu'au dernier moment l'homme qui, doué d'une volonté prométhéenne, veut arracher à la terre son secret sentira la griffe du doute lui déchirer le cÅ"ur.

la hazaña de Magallanes supera a todas las de su tiempo y significa para nosotros una gloria singular en medio de sus glorias: la de no haber inmolado, como ocurre la mayor parte de las veces, la vida de miles y centenares de miles por su idea, sino solamente la propia vida.

L'exploit de Magellan a prouvé, une fois de plus, qu'une idée animée par le génie et portée par la passion est plus forte que tous les éléments réunis et que toujours un homme, avec sa petite vie périssable, peut faire de ce qui a paru un rêve à des centaines de générations une réalité et une vérité impérissables.

Al clarear el día del martes 20 de septiembre de 1519, se levan ruidosamente las anclas, ondean al viento las velas y truenan las bocas de fuego hacia la tierra que va desapareciendo. Ha comenzado el viaje de exploración más largo, la aventura más audaz que registra la historia de la humanidad.

de noche se ven unas llamas en las tinieblas, por lo que Magallanes da el nombre de Tierra del Fuego a la que acaban de descubrir.

Sólo porque creía conocer un secreto le fue posible a Magallanes descifrar el secreto geográfico más grande de su época. Sólo

Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

carefully pulled himself up to look into the horizontal ventilation

There are two kinds: an eye for details, which discovers new things, and a fixed look that follows only a ready-made plan and speeds it up for the moment.

Die Menschheit werde lernen, meinte er. Sie lerne etwas langsamer, als er angenommen habe. "Es liegt daran, daß die Tüchtigen ständig versuchen, das wenige von der Welt zu verändern, was sie kennen. Eines Tages werden sie die Welt entdecken, statt sie zu verbessern. Und nicht mehr vergessen, was sie schon entdeckt haben.

Climbing, simply and joyfully, is the way I love the world.