Quotes About Exploration

I always tell travel writing students to use these early hours to explore, because one's surroundings—the colorful drinks, the melodic sirens, the sweet-and-foul smells—will not be as clear or as sharp in a few days. At the start, everything stands out as if in high definition, especially, strangely, if you're groggy from jet lag or insomnia.

Follow the path of the unsafe

Should you dare to ride this dreadful beast, you would awaken later as if from a deep sleep, with some of these printed scraps clutched in your hands. Fragments would hint at ideal books, impossible books, books that you have always longed to read.

It'd take a guy a lifetime to know Brooklyn t'roo and t'roo. An' even den, yuh wouldn't know it all. Only the dead know Brooklyn t'roo an' t'roo.

A stone, a leaf, an unfound door.

The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth--it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.

Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back, but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once.' Next day the following telegram arrived from Torstein: COMING. TORSTEIN.

Pearls rarely turn up in oysters served to you on a plate; you have to dive for them.

Otherwise he was glad we had missed our landing, for he still had three books to read.

The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator.

Agreement and acceptance rarely stimulate experiments and progress.

It was a great moment on board when two large boobies were spotted above the horizon to westward

But you can't navigate a raft," he added. "It goes sideways and backward and round as the wind takes it.

The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator. The ocean has been man's highway from the days he built the first buoyant ships, long before he tamed the horse, invented wheels, and cut roads through the virgin jungles.

Thornton W. Burgess

BOWSER THE HOUND BY THORNTON W.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Once you have swung a pickax that will reveal the curve of a street four thousand years covered over which was once an active, much-traveled highway, you are never quite the same again.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

Hope is a projection of the imagination; so is despair. Despair all too readily embraces the ills it foresees; hope is an energy and arouses the mind to explore every possibility to combat them.

where do we go for experience? How do we trust

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.