Quotes About Exploration

As I followed the accounts of Tibetan pilgrims, as well as those of Victorian and Edwardian explorers, Pemako became for me a realm of unbounded possibility, a place where geographical exploration merged with discoveries of the spirit.

Play isn't doing what we want, but doing what we can with the materials we find along the way.

games aren't the opposite of work, but experiences that set aside the ordinary purposes of things.

fun isn't the experience of pleasure, but the outcome of tinkering with a small part of the world in a surprising way. Think

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

Never say 'no' to adventures.

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

Siberia is so big, it's almost more an idea than a place

As long as you're living in the meantime, you'll never really know what you're missing. And by doing so, your life is just a rehearsal for a performance that never comes.

The warm days of Firestreak are usually good for travellers in the world of Amarillia.

And how did you find the East?' 'It's a shit-hole. But it's our shit-hole.

She left the pneumatique at the next stop and went to see what she had done to the world.

BeeJee &ersenn

Destinations are false goals; it is the Way Gone that matters.

Ian McDonald

WOLF BROTHER is the kind of story you dream of reading and all to rarely find.

Sometimes I think we're all gentlemen of the road. It's just that most of us haven't got the courage to take that first step.

Acknowledgements Reading Group Notes Timeline About the Author By Ian Rankin Copyright Serendipity. According to the dictionary, it means the ability to make 'happy chance finds'. Serendip was the old name for Ceylon. Horace Walpole is credited with coining the term, after the fairy tale 'The Three Princes of Serendip', whose titular heroes were always stumbling across things they weren't looking for.

went to take a look at it. A plaque

In mathematics, it's unwise to abandon an interesting idea just because it's wrong.

If you spend a day driving, you travel a long way and see nothing. If you spend a day walking, you travel a short distance but, in compensation, you see every small detail along the way. The efficiency of the bicycle gives you the best of both modes. On a bike, you can travel a long way and see a huge amount. The cyclist experiences both breadth and depth.

I never travel without my sketch book.

Who lives sees, but who travels sees more.