Quotes About Exploration

the lost sequence in a life, they say, is the thing we always search out

Give me a map and I'll build you a city.

Every river they came to was bridge-less, as if its name had been erased, as if the sky were starless, homes doorless.

But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

First, he though, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.

those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.

The ends of the earth are never the points on a map that colonists push against, enlarging their sphere of influence. On one side servants and slaves and tides of power and correspondence with the Geographical Society. On the other the first step by a white man across a great river, the first sight (by a white eye) of a mountain that has been there forever.

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

She thrilled to open space and weather nights, as if she could never be contained or fully revealed there.

Welcome to my neck of the woods. I love that phrase. As if it were part of a body.

I believe in such cartography--to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.

At one point he put his nose close to a volume called Raymond, or Life and Death by Sir Oliver Hodge.

But his own mind was helpless against every moment's headline. He did nothing but leap into the mass of changes and explore them and all the tiny facets so eventually he was completely governed by fears of certainty. He distrusted it in anyone but Nora for there it went to the spine, and yet he attacked it again and again in her, cruelly, hating it, the sure lanes of the probable. Breaking chairs and window glass doors in fury at her certain answers. [15-16]

A writer's mind must never be closed. It's his duty to be curious and my duty to feed the curiosity. Think of it as the start of a big adventure.

The ships slowly picked their way through, guided from patch to patch of open water by the shouts from the crow's nest. Tern, cape pigeon and white petrel flew around the ship. Seals on the ice were so slow to take fright that they were easily bludgeoned on the head and brought on board for food. In the stomach of one of them they found 9 lb of granite stones, which puzzled Ross, as they were a thousand miles from the nearest land.

Die Erebus war nicht zufällig nach dem Gott der Unterwelt benannt, und für die Männer an Bord muss es sich angefühlt haben, als wären sie dort angekommen

Memory is the enemy of wonder

early computer engineers relied on LSD in designing circuit chips

Do you see the world as a prison or a playground?

free oneself of the bounds of everyday perception and thought in a search for universal truths and enlightenment

Guidelines for Voyagers and Guides."* The guidelines represent a

Psilocybe cubensis, one of the more common species of magic mushroom.

a cross between a spa/retreat and a gym, where people can experience psychedelics