Quotes About Exploration

In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left. However, he said, there is one last mystery. There is a large country on the Roof of the World, where strange things happen. There are monks who have the ability to separate mind from body, shamans and oracles who make government decisions, and a God-King who lives in a skyscraper-like palace in the Forbidden City of Llhasa.

There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred.

Here's to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented!

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

Good thing life's a journey, even if you have to backtrack to find your way.

That is a pity; they must have known about whole worlds that we cannot touch.

When you play a piece of music there are so many different ways you could play it. You keep asking yourself what if. You try this and you say what if and you try that. When you buy a CD you get one answer to the question. You never get the what if.

I said I liked Amundsen and Scott and I liked King Solomon's Mines and I liked everything by Dumas and I liked The Bad Seed and The Hound of the Baskervilles and I liked The Name of the Rose but the Italian was rather difficult.

The see lifts me again, and carries me away with it.

It's a funny thing how everyone wants to go to the bottom of the world.

I wish I was away in Ingo Far across the briny sea Sailing over deepest waters Where neither care nor worry trouble me.

In a world without air all you breathe is adventure!

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. Japanese Proverb

Because Explorers are so spontaneous, they can be unpredictable and unreliable. And their curiosity can override their sense of responsibility.

Who I am remains to be seen— and I alone intend to be the one to see it.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

The faster we travel, the less there is to see.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

the children supposed that he was a pilgrim.

There's a special phenomenology to walking in woods in winter.