Quotes About Exploration

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not where ships belong.

There I was at fifteen, on the hook, confronted by Matisse and Chagall, by Nolde, Kirchner, and Schmidt-Rotluff, by Guernica and the frantic wall-sized Jackson Pollock, by the Beckmann triptych and Louise Nevelson's dark black sculpture.

If you want to learn something, just steal it.

por si las moscas salgo a la calle con pantalones nuevos, chamarra de cuero, cien gramos de The Dry Look y mi playera favorita. California is for Lovers. ¿Qué tal que me la encuentro?

Reventarse: buscarlo los ojos al vértigo para bailar a solas con él.

Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.

We believe what we see. So did Columbus. What do you do when you're in the dark?

And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge.

Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?

How could the stars, sparkle as they might, help me find my way if they kept moving?

If Lakshmi, goddess of wealth, one day favours me bountifully, Oxford is fifth on the list of cities I would like to visit before I pass on, after Mecca, Varanasi, Jerusalem and Paris.

It's a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.

The future we face in the Pacific may be dangerous, but I suspect it will be anything but dull.

Christopher Kenworthy

The Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) understood what he was seeing at the time of a lunar eclipse: 'The church says the earth is flat, but I know it is round for I have seen its shadow on the moon and I have more faith in a shadow than the church.

TO A FRIEND IN SEARCH OF RURAL SECLUSION When all else fails, Try Wales.

Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt...

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

The very basic core of a man's spirit is his passion for adventure.

Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.

Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human — which means its a superpower all humans posses.

Running is the heart of what it means to be human.