Quotes About Exploration

There lives and there leaps in me A love of the lowly things of earth, And a passion to be free. To pitch my tent with no prosy plan, To range and to change at will, To mock at the mastership of man, To seek Adventure's thrill, Carefree to be, as a bird that sings, To go my own sweet way. Robert Service

And although, snug in your sleeping bag on a frosty night, the valley below may be bright with street lights and roads, the wind is as raw and fresh as ever, and a night beneath the stars remains magical and precious.

It feels good to carry my world on my back. I smile in the sunlight. I could travel and live this lightly forever, I remember as I get into my stride.

If you want to do difficult, exciting things on life then you have to carefully but regularly test what you are really able to do. You have to think whether a risk is worth taking, or if it is just silly. And you neet to be brave, trying out things that you previously felt might be too hard. If you do these things often, you'll start to understand that you are capable of more than you ever imagined. You really. We all are.

When you travel, the world comes real and three-dimensional, impossibly vivid

It is easy to begin but hard to stick at, which is why I respect anyone who has completed a long hike. You learn a lot, someone, by hiking in the hills

If you want to do difficult, exciting things in life then you have to carefully but regularly test what you are really able to do. You have to think whether a risk is worth taking, or if it is just silly. And you neet to be brave, trying out things that you previously felt might be too hard. If you do these things often, you'll start to understand that you are capable of more than you ever imagined. You really. We all are.

I now believe there is something even more important than striving for the remarkable. And that is to stop dreaming about an adventure of a lifetime, and instead pursue a lifetime of living adventure through a daily pledge to push myself a little, scare myself now and then and remain curious

If you want to do difficult, exciting things in life then you have to carefully but regularly test what you are really able to do. You have to think whether a risk is worth taking, or if it is just silly. And you neet to be brave, trying out things that you previously felt might be too hard. If you do these things often, you'll start to understand that you are capable of more than you ever imagined. You really are. We all are.

Maps are an invitation to adventure. Snow was falling and I was in a grubby, windowless room next to a pig. That was not on my map.

Only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all.

It is always better to try and fail than not to try.

I think the deeper we go, the less likelihood we'll have of being recognised as something unwanted. It's like the human body - the greatest density of pain receptors lies in the skin.

No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.

I wish to have both things in my life: adventure and comfort.

It was an exceedingly odd thing to see an elephant in a spacesuit.

I was on a moon in one of them. Earth's, I think. And I kept on trying to get inside this alien structure. Fucking thing kept killing me, but I'd always keep going back inside, like I was being brought back to life each time just for that.

She longed to touch it, to stroke her fingers through that atmosphere, cleaving white billowing clouds and glittering salty seas, until she felt the hard scabbed crust beneath them.

We should have brought a torch," he was saying. "We have been to Saturn and back and we didn't bring a torch.

Having created these cognitively enhanced creatures, the safest option at the time appeared to be to launch them into interstellar space.

They would continue to live in New Tiamaat, orbiting Crucible.

We're still fumbling in the dark, trying to find out how to live on a galactic scale.

Probably fake anyway," Adrana said, with a knowing sniff, as if she had plenty of experience in this area. "C'mon. Don't want to dawdle, not when there's so much to see. The next one's a Limb Broker.

I take each day as it comes. I'd rather take good memories from one world than fret about the thousand I'll never see.