Quotes About Exploration

If we want to make the world add up, we need to ask questions -- open-minded, genuine questions. And once we start asking them, we may find it is delightfully difficult to stop.

He [Stanley] had stated that he longed to do something wonderful for the African tribes along the Congo, and instead, as would become all too apparent, had set them up for a terrible fate. In 1877 he came down the great river as the first European ever to do so, declaring his hope that the Congo should become like `a torch to those who sought to do good'. Instead, it became the torch that attracted the archexploiter King Leopold II of Belgium.

Voyaging great distances – through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains – is all about finding ourselves.

Robert Burton was right: maps are a certain cure for melancholy.

Poetically if not geographically, the Kuria Murias belong to the same harmonious archipelago as Serendip, the Celebes, Tahiti and Taprobane, Andaman and Nicobar, the Isle of Grain and the Isle of Dogs. I had fallen in love with the name years before, in the atlas.

We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.

He showed me how...See, he says he's going up through Laos, then into Burma, and then some other country, I forget, and then India and Iran and Turkey, and then Greece, and the rest is easy. That's what he said. The rest is easy, he said.

Money was never a problem, passports were never required. There were always new places to dance.

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It's a new world, right enough, a world for the taking, and we're the ones who know how to live in it without having to pretend it's a district of England or France or Spain.

What made him shift each boot from one step to the next one down, and then the other boot to the one below that, was the thought of being able to read books. He had of course seen the things many times, and had seen people peer into pages and then raise their heads knowing things they hadn't known before.

Hurwood nodded. "We're not really in Florida now—or not particularly, anyway, not Florida any more than we're in every other place.

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Everything imaginable had been done or tried out there. It wasn't the feeling you had looking out on his own land. In Australia, you looked out and saw the possible, the spaces, the maybes...

We was just kids, we did kid stuff. And we didn't have things to do like people in the city. We couldn't catch the bus to the beach or the movies or hang out in big shopping malls. We had to ride everywhere or shanks it. Go for a milkshake at the roadhouse, check out the tip. Because there was no KFC or Subway. We'd walk along the highway looking for eagle feathers.

When Mrs Ross asked him what he was thinking of, he shrugged. But he was thinking of the time he'd climbed the steeple of a church when he was ten-and had seen, for the very first time, the world spread out around him like a gift.

In this crowded world, we must learn to navigate by speech, as ancient mariners taught themselves to sail across the Aegean Sea.

A m?vészek úgy aránylanak az emberi beszédhez, mint a felfedezÅ'k az utazáshoz.

We already have the means to travel among the stars. But these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an Act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.

Following a successful exploratory mission to Earth, during which contact was briefly established with Cro-Magnon humans, the expedition returned to their home planet. It was decided to colonize Earth. Tragically, only one of their huge spaceships survived the journey

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….

Here we are, Han announced. Right. Luke looked around, an involuntary shiver running up his back. Dead center in the middle of nowhere. Should be a familiar feeling for you, Han suggested, keying for a sensor scan. Thanks, Luke said, but getting stuck between systems with a dead hyperdrive isn't something I want to get familiar with. I didn't mean that, Han said innocently as he keyed the comm. I was talking about Tatooine.

Storytelling is an escape from the jail of the self, leading to the ultimate adventure--seeing life through the eyes of another.