Quotes About Exploration

Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot questions.

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them – and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours – they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

Martin Waldseemüller published an updated world map, the first to show the place where Europe's westward-sailing fleets had landed as a separate continent. Having drawn it, Waldseemüller had to give it a name. Erroneously believing that Amerigo Vespucci had been the person who discovered it, Waldseemüller named the continent in his honour – America.

Hands Cave', in Argentina.

Let our bodies try To ford a wider time, Our hands not know The other shore.

Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

the worst thing said about him is that he was "uncurious.

Doing risk sport had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you're right on the edge, but you don't go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means.

reconhecer nossas capacidades, fazer experiências, testar até onde poderemos ir na busca de nosso melhor.

The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.

Yet here we are, less than 50,000 years from Neanderthal Man, landing astronauts on the moon.

Inside the woods is an abandoned hotel. Trees grow in the lobby and up through the rooms. Limbs jut out through the windows. It looks like outside inside. I climb the trees through 1000 rooms. I look for you in each of them. You're a long shiny line.

The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

I really don't limit myself in any way. I just search for great flavors and marriages wherever they come from.

What we've witnessed in the past 25 or 30 years is just incredible. We've birthed 30,000 or 40,000 restaurants. I used to go to Europe every year to get experience [and ideas]. I don't go to Europe anymore. I go to Oregon, I go to Washington, I go to Louisiana, I go to Little Rock, I go to Austin, I travel New York City. I don't go to Europe anymore.

The problem with the cutting edge is that someone has to bleed.

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.

How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it.

Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

I need this wild life, this freedom.

On the left hand path we take the direct route, which is much more strenuous, much more dangerous, and much more likely to cause you to fall.