Quotes About Exploration

And the only mode in which you can derive even a tolerable idea of his living contour, is by going a whaling yourself; but by so doing, you run no small risk of being eternally stove and sunk by him. Wherefore, it seems to me you had best not be too fastidious in your curiosity touching this Leviathan.

So with stun-sail piled on stun-sail, we sailed along

Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?

Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue. But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him.

For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and then, with weary patience, cleansed ourselves from its defilements, and learned to live here in clean tabernacles of the soul; hardly is this done, when—There she blows!—the ghost is spouted up, and away we sail to fight some other world, and go through young life's old routine again.

But, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatobooarrs, Erromanggoans, Pannangians, and Brighggians, and besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft which unheeded reel about the streets, you will see other sights still more curious, certainly more comical.

I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come.

Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?

Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue.

Chiamatemi Ismaele. Alcuni anni fa - non importa quanti esattamente - avendo pochi o punti denari in tasca e nulla di particolare che m'interessasse a terra, pensai di darmi alla navigazione e vedere la parte acquea del mondo. E' un modo che ho io di cacciare la malinconia e di regolare la circolazione.

No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor

I stand alone here upon an open sea, with two oceans and a whole continent between me and law.

Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the

street, and methodically knocking people's hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

The Forty-barrel-bull schools are larger than the harem schools. Like a mob of young collegians, they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness, tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no prudent underwriter would insure them any more than he would a riotous lad at Yale or Harvard. They soon relinquish this turbulence though, and when about three-fourths grown, break up, and separately go about in quest of settlements, that is, harems.

It's not down in any map; true places never are.

So there is no earthly way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks like. And the only mode in which you can derive even a tolerable idea of his living contour, is by going a whaling yourself; but by so doing, you run no small risk of being eternally stove and sunk by him. Wherefore, it seems to me you had best not be too fastidious in your curiosity touching this Leviathan.

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down on any map; true places never are.

Lord, when shall we be done growing? As long as we have anything more to do, we have done nothing. So,now, let us add Moby Dick to our blessing, and step from that. Leviathan is not the biggest fish; I have heard of Krakens.

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream.

Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest.

Sueño con navegar por mares prohibidos y abordar costas bárbaras. Por no ignorar lo que es bueno, me doy cuenta en seguida de los horrores, pero puedo mantenerme en su compañía, si me dejan, ya que esta bien mantenerse en términos amistosos con todos los residentes del lugar en que uno se aloja.

Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries—stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water