Quotes About Exploration

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.

We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.

Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work.

Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume.

If you really want to spend some years in a Japanese monastery, there is no earthly reason why you shouldn't. Or if you want to spend your time hopping freight cars and digging Charlie Parker, it's a free country.

Before them will lie billions of other galaxies, over distances we can quantify but can't really comprehend.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.

The rise of placelessness, on top of the sense that the whole planet is now minutely known and surveilled, has given this dissatisfaction a radical edge, creating an appetite to find places that are off the map and that are somehow secret, or at least have the power to surprise us.

In the early 1990s I got involved with one of the more outré forms of this reinvention, known as psychogeography.

The most fascinating places are often also the most disturbing, entrapping, and appalling. They are also often temporary. In ten years' time most of the places we will be exploring will look very different; many will not be there at all.

Far from dotting the globe with fabulous islands, the naval powers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries remorselessly tracked down any and all such rumors and either confirmed or disproved them. As a result, the 1875 revised Admiralty Pacific chart discarded 123 unreal islands.

In a fully discovered world exploration does not stop; it just has to be reinvented.

To wander through a day care center in Newcastle while clutching a map of the Berlin subway is genuinely disorienting.

See the opportunities for adventures, not the constraints that get in the way.

Adventure is a loose word that means different things to different people. It is a state of mind, a spirit of trying something new and leaving your comfort zone. Adventure is about enthusiasm, ambition, open-mindedness and curiosity. If this is true, then 'adventure' is not only crossing deserts and climbing mountains; adventure can be found everywhere, every day, and it is up to us to seek it out.

But that was good enough for me, because adventure doesn't always have to be about climbing K2. Just getting out there and doing something is sometimes good enough. In fact, you shouldn't even compare your trip with climbing K2. You should compare it with the realistic alternative that faces most people with busy lives and tight diaries, which is doing no adventure at all.

In a busy city it is easy to forget that somewhere out there are fields and rivers and peace.

It is always worth making a little effort to find a special spot to sleep because the memories and the smug Instagram photo last long after you've got your breath back. Bivvying

Patagonia, like Mr Kipling, really does make exceedingly good lakes.

Living adventurously is nothing more than an attitude you charge at life with.

Alastair Humphreys