Quotes About Exploration

You can't be curious and on the attack at the same moment.

But I am bored by Casanovas, inveterate travelers, nature lovers, and the drug-obsessed, as they speak from the narrowness of their exhaustive experience of one thing.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven't seen.

Peter was lost. More than lost, really. Spectacularly, hopelessly, "tell the search party not to get their hopes up" lost. If there was a contest for getting lost being held at that moment, Peter wouldn't win because he wouldn't be able to find it. That's how lost he was.

Wanderlust is incurable.

Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

Climbing mountains is an act I happen to love, but it is only one form of adventure. There are thousands. In fact, there's one for every human with the passion to push personal boundaries.

Getting to space is not rocket science, it's political science!

In 1352, Ibn Batuta, the greatest Arab-language traveler of the Middle Ages, who had journeyed overland across Africa, Europe, and Asia, reported visiting the city of Taghaza, which, he said, was entirely built of salt, including an elaborate mosque.

Orcas continually prove there are more things in the ocean than are dreamt of in our science.

One of the first questions that bewildered beginners often ask is: how do I find information on all the built-in tools?

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

Birding is hunting without killing, preying without punishing, and collecting without clogging your home.

That was the thing about Levantin: he loved the birds, but he really loved the places they brought him. When you spend your career in the confines of a gray suit, the pipits at dawn above timberline are even more wondrous.

The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.

Traveling is the best education. You see the world through another lens. You realize your homeland isn't the only reality, there's many.

The afterlife can be an adventure if one can supersede the gloom and sidestep the pitfalls.

I like stepping into the future. Therefore, I look for doorknobs.

The book you don't read is a journey forsaken.