Quotes About Exploration

Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

Solvitur ambulando: "When in doubt, walk.

It's a natural law (or supernatural, if you're so inclined) that weird things appear where people tend to disappear. African jungles, Pacific islands, Himalayan wastelands—wherever expeditionary parties go missing, that's where lost species, Stonehengey stone idols, the flitting shadows of yetis, and ancient, unsurrendering Japanese soldiers are sure to pop up. The

To look at this country is grand; to travel in it, is Hell,

Awareness of the world begins with your feet, he believes.

Living on the edge wasn't about danger, he realized. It was about curiosity; audacious curiosity, like

exploring Arizona's mazelike Mogollon canyon range,

an utterly spellbinding slice of earth, like no place I'd even seen"—a Willy Wonka world of lime-green pools and pink crystal towers and subterranean waterfalls.

Experiment with your gears. Run slowly enough to sing as you go, then gradually pick up the pace until you can puff out only a few words at a time. Work your way up and down the gear range, mixing in a few short bursts so you remember what it feels like to go Full Burn.

From then on and for the rest of his life, Paddy's motto was Solvitur ambulando: "When in doubt, walk.

A guy like that, a wanderer who'd go anywhere but fit in nowhere.

Comencé a embriagarme con la vista que tenía alrededor, observando como el sol se alzaba sobre la falda de la montaña, tiñendo el río de dorado. En breve me encontraría a la altura de esa cima.

we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

Don't fight the trail, take what it gives you. If you have a choice between one step or two between rocks, take three.

That kind of freewheeling self-invention is where big breakthroughs come from, as Vigil knew (and Columbus, the Beatles, and Bill Gates would happily agree).

Every summer, he leaves his hut and rides buses

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to books is enjoy them.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

Oh, silly woman! Leave your stove, your pots and pans and chores, even if only for one day! Come out and see the sun in the sky and the river in the distance!

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue- you sell him a whole new life. -Christopher Morley

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.