Quotes About Exploration

The pilgrimage is one of the basic modes of walking, walking in search of something intangible

Cómo emprenderás la búsqueda de aquello cuya naturaleza desconoces por completo?».

All Woolf's work as I know it constitutes a sort of Ovidian metamorphosis where the freedom sought is the freedom to continue becoming, exploring, wandering, going beyond. She is an escape artist. In

Live always at the 'edge of mystery'— the boundary of the unknown.

The surprises, liberations, and clarifications of travel can sometimes be garnered by going around the block as well as going around the world, and walking travels both near and far.

I love going out of my way, beyond what I know, and finding my way back a few extra miles

Lose the whole world, he asserts, get lost in it, and find your soul.

Woolf is celebrating getting lost, not literally lost as in not knowing how to find your way, but lost as in open to the unknown, and the way that physical space can provide psychic space.

J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, "live always at the 'edge of mystery'—the boundary of the unknown.

Perder cosas tiene que ver con la desaparición de lo conocido, perderse tiene que ver con la aparición de lo desconocido.

The random, the unscreened, allows you to find what you don't know you are looking for, and you don't know a place until it surprises you. Walking is one way of maintaining a bulwark against this erosion of the mind, the body, the landscape, and the city, and every walker is a guard on patrol to protect ineffable.

This is the strange life of books that you enter alone as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone, but in communion with your imagination, traversing your route. Books are solitudes in which we meet.

Science doesn't reduce things, or explain mysteries away; it just discovers stranger and stranger things.

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

En un tren, parece que puedas ir a cualquier parte.

want to be grown-up and drive my own convertible and live in a different town where nobody knows Mama or Daddy.

Behind me the past was darker than I had known it, not only irrecoverable, but unexplored, unexplorable.

Once there was a boy who had to leave home...and find another.

Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement.

How often on an expedition have I told myself, That's enough! and then a few weeks later when the effort, worry, and hardship were forgotten, I began dreaming about a new journey, planning a new climb. Pretty soon I'd be off again. And once again, it would be dangerous. I never intended to risk my neck, but I knew that if I were ever to stop dreaming or traveling I would be old. And that would drive me to despair.

Whymper se stal tradi?ním horolezcem – pÃ…â"¢esnÄ› tím, kterým na Matterhornu být nechtÄ›l.

None of those climbs, including my own, match what Mallory and Irvine did in June 1924. Mallory who gave the mountain a spirit that cannot be captured with radio or telephone equipment, nor seen with telephoto lenses or satellite pictures. Daring to attempt the impossible, risking everything for a dream, and refusing to capitulate in the face of adversity, Mallory, to me, personifies heroism.

Ich hatte keinen Lebensplan. Die Begeisterung für ein Leben als Abenteurer hatte mich früh schon beflügelt, sie trieb mich immer weiter an, ließ mich dafür kämpfen, selbstbestimmt leben zu dürfen.