Quotes About Exploration

i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.

Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.

To understand the precise point when the possible becomes the impossible, you have to appreciate and understand the laws of physics.

Europe's ranges looked Lilliputian in comparison. Eckenstein's men crossed vast glaciers, covered in huge rocks, riven by streams up to 100 ft wide. In Switzerland a typical glacier might culminate with a rocky terminal moraine a few hundred feet high, but here, according to Crowley, some of them soared up to 1500 ft.

K2 had been climbed, not conquered.

Go anywhere you can, because a journey is an adventure, and adventures are how we learn who we really are. Johnathan Cain quoting Mick Fleetwood in Don't Stop Believing

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be involved with what you have done.

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated...

This world is my home. This world is my office. This world is my playground and everyone in this world is my friend. There is no other world I know so I will experience and explore this world to the hilt and evolve with every experience and MickeyMize my life! Please share this to make this vibrant world our only heaven.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?

As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.

el que viaja mucho va huyendo de cada lugar que deja y no buscando cada lugar a que llega.

Fascism is cured by reading, racism is cured by traveling.

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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Amaba el libro, pero el libro espontáneamente elegido. Ella entendía que el vicio o la virtud de leer dependían del primer libro. Aquel que llegaba a interesarse por un libro se convertía inevitablemente en esclavo de la lectura. Un libro te remitía a otro libro, un autor a otro autor, porque, en contra de lo que solía decirse, los libros nunca te resolvían problemas sino que te los creaban, de modo que la curiosidad del lector siempre quedaba insatisfecha.

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.

The English language is mysterious. The secret of our dog is to be found in it. 'Dog' spelt backwards is 'God'. The dog, then, is the road which, if travelled backwards, from the deepest depths, from the roots of the tree of smell, touch and taste, will turn you into a God. Thus the dog is the guide of the Blind Traveller, of the Pilgrim of Immortality. It is God backwards.

Eu, Diogo Ribera Flores, filho do campo e do sequeiro, herdeiro de sobreiros, azinheiras e oliveiras, alentejano por berço e condenação perpétua, deixei mulher e filhos, deixei mãe e irmão, deixei terra e Pátria, deixei esse ar espesso e opressivo de um Portugal amordaçado, para flutuar neste balão gigante sobre o mar e sobre a vida, esperando que no fim da viagem haja um Novo Mundo à minha espera.

Não sei se sou eu que vencerei as ilhas, ou elas que me vencerão a mim.

Não há regresso. Há viagens sem regresso nem repetição.

Luckily, the world is absolutely full of interesting things to do. Only lack of imagination, or lack of energy, stand in the way. Otherwise each of us could be a poet or musician, an inventor or explorer, an amateur scholar, scientist, artist, or collector.