Quotes About Exploration

she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else.

There was more to life than being fat and safe and warm in a clockwork luxury resort. Or maybe there wasn't more, but he was going to find out. And how did you find out? You had an adventure. That's how. You picked up a golden key.

Read the books they don't want you to. That's where the good stuff is.

Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs

I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.

We were in our early twenties, playing and traveling, and didn't have to answer to anybody. It was the kind of life where if you had a problem today, you could be five hundred miles away from it the next day.

These places are not wilderness; the "unknown" lies inside us.

I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,Tropics, Zones and Meridian Lines?"So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply,"They are merely conventional signs!"

The further off from England the nearer is to France—Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

By remaining non-specialized, man opened up a thousand fresh paths for his own further development.

The New World vision seemed to enlarge and exalt every human possibility, even though the explorers and pioneers, in turning their backs on the Old World, did not in fact leave the 'cruel sword' or the 'ignominious plague' behind them, for their smallpox, measles, and tuberculosis decimated those natives whom their guns did not exterminate.

Unlike any earthbound activity, space exploration is limitless, and the technological demands it makes are insatiable. In this sense, spatial adventurism has indeed the sinister advantages of war: all the more effectively because it recovers for popular consumption the archaic sentiments that originally led to the New World exploration of the sixteenth century and later.

Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta.

Some people are motivated by a need for recognition, some by money, and some by a broad social goal. I start from a different place: from the love of ideas and the urge to put them into motion and see where they might lead.

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.

I urge my critics to get passports and see the world.

What keeps me going are my learnings, which I would rather call my 'experience,' and my urge to explore.

Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

When you live in a house in L.A., you feel so isolated. You urge yourself to go and find the nooks and crannies where people are having a good time.