Quotes About Exploration

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more pleasant to focus with the sights and smells of a place rattling around in my mind.

My three-year ride by horse from Mongolia to Hungary was the most difficult, most revealing, and interesting of any of my travels. Travelling by horse, you're far more engaged and dependent on the land and other people than by any other means.

As someone who works and travels as much, you could feel... A bit rootless?

Growing up, I wanted to be a journalist. I was in love with Lisa Ling, who's a broadcast journalist and who travels the world. I used to read all of her articles and watch her when she'd go to China or South Africa or Australia. I thought that was the coolest job because she got to travel and tell people's stories.

Art is fluid, and it travels. You have to let music take you where it wants to take you. You can't necessarily be the controller.

Given my travels, I've learned to be more open and feel much more comfortable experimenting with food.

Food lovers tend to make life difficult for themselves on their travels. It's like travelling first class, if your expectations are so high, you're bound to be disappointed.

I like picking up accessories as and when I see something I like - whether its from my travels on the streets of a foreign country or more mainstream labels like Accessorize.

What you have in my work is one person's path as he travels through the world, and there is no limitation of what is conceivable.

Since I am a big foodie, trying out different places to eat is the most exciting part of my travels.

Zadie Smith's 'NW' is keeping me company on my solo travels.

I have a mini-library at home and I have begun reading books I'd purchased during my travels.

Life is just a journey and how you traverse it is what matters.

I've tried to eat little shrubs before. We were on an unsupported 20-plus day traverse, following the migration of endangered antelope across the Chang Tang Plateau. We were like, 'Oh, this is what they ate; we should try it.'

Fear is a treacherous leader. It shrinks from the new and fails to meet the challenges of the future.

Some people might be groomed for success; I've just always thought I've got a hell of a lot of things to learn and places to go. Creatively, I couldn't stay on the same treadmill. I chose to be off-centre and do collaborative work.

In space, if you push, you are usually going somewhere, so staying on the treadmill was a challenge at first, even with the harness.

It says something very deep about humans and our society, something very good about us, that we've invested our time and treasure in building a machine that can fly across three billion miles of space to explore the Pluto system.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

I remember going with my mom to a random garage sale as a kid and thinking what a cool treasure hunt that whole world was. Only to transition as an adult to think, 'What a gross place that really is.'

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.