Quotes About Exploration

We lose ourselves in books. We find ourselves there too.

I've never been skydiving, but I have zoomed-in on Google Earth really fast.

The hunter that travels out into the woods is lost to the world, yet finds himself.

Adventures are for the adventurous.

Everyone is a reader.... Some just haven't found their book yet.

Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.

Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.

There is nothing like a train journey for reflection.

Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation

Creative vision, sometimes childlike, enhances our ability to explore and question the reality around us.

Blake encourages us to fully engage our imagination in questioning of reality.

Each question is three thousand questions, and a good question provides more questions.

We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art.

I want to go to the mountains, I want to go to the sea, I want to go to a place where no one knows me, I want to be lost among the people who speak a language I don't understand at all.

Make it up as we go along...

I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.

The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

But as he'd learned through the years, sometimes the best things were found when you weren't looking for them.

Don't step in the river without knowing its depth

Known is a drop, unknown is an Ocean

What is learnt is a handful of sand, while what is unknown is the size of the world.

Curiosity killed the cat," Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? "People always forget the rest of the saying," she complained. "'And satisfaction brought it back.

He feels that nineteen-year-olds, almost all of them, don't have their feet on the ground. They're turning loose from their families and they haven't found anything else to moor themselves to; they blow like tumbleweed. They're unknowns, to the people that used to know them inside out and to themselves.