Quotes About Exploration

Wilderness An area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. —Howard Zahniser Perhaps

Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty

Nu poÅ£i urma decât un singur drum odat?.Åži tot aÅŸa, nu poÅ£i str?bate decât un singur deÅŸert.

Demersul suprem al ratiunii este sa afle ca exista o infinitate de lucruri care o depasesc. Si e o ratiune slaba daca nu ajunge pana acolo.

W obu ?wiatach prawd? jest, ?e je?li szukasz dobra i prawdy, pi?kno znajdzie si? samo.

Our passionate preoccupation with the sun, the stars and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have.

growth comes only when you consciously push yourself onto foreign and uncomfortable-feeling sections of wall.

Quando gli uomini si trovano di fronte a qualcosa di nuovo che li coglie impreparati, si affannano a cercare le parole per dare un nome all'ignoto, anche quando non possono definirlo né comprenderlo.

Mustering this sad, mutinous little force, I drove them before me up the Linar gorge, cursing the lot of them. It was not difficult for me to work up a rage at this moment. All of a sudden I felt that revulsion against an alien way of life that anyone who travels in remote places experiences from time to time. I longed for clean clothes; the company of people who meant what they said, and did it. I longed for a hot bath and a drink.

In the great court, surrounded by broken-down droshkies and the skeletons of German motor-buses, we spread our sleeping-bags on the oily ground beside our vehicle. For the first time since leaving Istanbul we had achieved Hugh's ambition to sleep 'under the stars'.

A poor grasp of dead reckoning may have led Christopher Columbus to North America instead of India, a navigational error of about eight thousand miles.

To know a country you must see it whole.

The Snark eventually ran out of fuel and crashed somewhere in the Amazonian rain forests of Brazil.

Then I remembered the Chip, a small experimental board we had built with footstraps, and thought it's dumb not to use this for jumping. That's when I first started jumping with footstraps and discovering controlled flight. I could go so much faster

Troubles are the price of adventure.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

Les pensées sont des femmes, on les renifle, on les suit, on s'engrise et puis brusquement, le désir bifurque et l'on va voir ailleurs.

All the highway is good for is to tell you to keep moving, there's nothing to see. That's for idiots who want to go as fast as possible from one point to another. We're not doing geometry here, we're traveling. Find me. some pretty little roads that show us all there is to see.

Le domande più interessanti rimangono domande. Avvolgono un mistero. A ogni risposta, si deve associare un forse. Sono solo le domande senza interesse ad avere una risposta definitiva.

Le besoin de comprendre ne se résume pas à un appétit de rationalité, c'est le besoin de se rassurer en identifiant les ténèbres, en mettant de l'ordre dans le chaos.

Si tu veux rien voir, tu prends l'avion comme tout le monde.

En fait, je n'ai pas peur de l'inconnu. C'est just que ça m'ennuie de perdre ce que je connais.