Quotes About Exploration

Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.

I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was mamaliga, and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call impletata. (Mem.,get recipe for this also.)

Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the brain?

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

And You. Who are You? Who is it that I am writing for? Are You a traveller who has cheated Tides and crossed Broken Floors and Derelict Stairs to reach these Halls? Or are You perhaps someone who inhabits my own Halls long after I am dead?

The enormity of this task sometimes makes me feel a little dizzy, but as a scientist and an explorer I have a duty to bear witness to the Splendours of the World.

have begun a Catalogue in which I intend to record the Position, Size and Subject of each Statue, and any other points of interest. So far I have completed the First and Second South-Western Halls and am engaged on the Third. The enormity of this task sometimes makes me feel a little dizzy, but as a scientist and an explorer I have a duty to bear witness to the Splendours of the World.

The first ten books Mr. Segundus looked at were worthless — books of sermons and moralizing from the last century, or descriptions of persons whom no one living cared about. The next fifty were very much the same. He began to think his task would soon be done. But then he stumbled upon some very interesting and unusual works of geology, philosophy and medicine. He began to feel more sanguine.

it seemed to him as if Mr Norrell had discovered some fifth point of the compass – not east, nor south, nor west, nor north, but somewhere quite different and this was the direction in which he led them.

As a scientist and an explorer I have a duty to bear witness to the splendours of the world.

Mr. Honeyfoot's post-chaise travelled through a world that seemed to contain a much higher proportion of chill grey sky and a much smaller one of solid comfortable earth than was usually the case.

Show me the labyrinth.' 'Gladly. What would you like to see?' 'I don't know', she said. 'Whatever you want to show me. Whatever's most beautiful.' Of course, what I really wanted to show her was everything, but that was impossible.

Two days ago I gathered together supplies for the journey: food, blankets, a small saucepan in which to heat water and some rags.

all I get the sense that she is alone, perhaps by choice or perhaps because no one else was courageous enough to follow her into the darkness.

He has no desire to explore the World. (pg. 49)

I went to the North-Eastern Corner and climbed up to the Statue of an Angel caught on a Rose Bush. I fetched out my brown leather messenger bag. I took all of my Journals out of it. There were nine of them. Just nine. I did not find twenty others that I had inexplicably overlooked until this moment.

We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them.

Thus, our keepers. As for finders—well, we had to be our own finders.

Priznam, misli mi ve?krat skrenejo s poti, namesto da bi se držala glavne ceste, rada zavijem na skrite stranske steze. Dajem vtis, kot da sem se izgubila, in mogo?e sem se res, a po tej poti moraš, ?e ho?eš najti jedro, ki ga tako vneto iš?eš.

Los espacios cerrados producen limitaciones extraordinarias en los hombres. Es necesario estar fuera, al aire libre, para admitir que hay cosas que no logras comprender; y eta concienciación no es una derrota sino una posibilidad que tienes de grandeza. A partir de ahí puedes hacer viajes extraordinarios...

That was the thing about courage, she was discovering. It opened so much more of the world to her than she'd expected. A

What's so ludicrous about Rafael wanting to travel?' 'He has a life here. He's a Bancroft, for God's sake.' 'I believe he thinks he's already explored that aspect of his life to death, Quinlan.

Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin...

My ears are screaming as Rob gives the thumbs-up sign that it's time to surface. I ascend with him slowly, like a dying soul reluctant to leave its body, and we watch the silver trail of our babbles rising above us like shooting stars.