Quotes About Exploration

whatever else I need, I'll get when I'm there. That's the whole point of an adventure. Pack light and figure the rest out as you go.

Sure, you could go to the bakery and pick out the exact cake you want, but there is a thrill in not being sure what you'll end up with.

We spend the rest of the trip surfing radio stations.

Someone like him could never be content staying at home and watching a movie on the couch.

When you start liking pain things start to get interesting.

If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

There is a man who travels around the world trying to find places where you can stand still and hear no human sound.

found a book called Thriving Not Surviving in a box on the street. I stood there, flipping through it, unwilling to commit.

The wife sits in the backyard with binoculars. She is trying to learn about the birds. She has seen robins and sparrows and wrens. A green-throated hummingbird. She wants to know the name of the black bird with the red wings. She looks it up. It is a red-winged blackbird.

No set line between lost and not lost.

Aboard the Belgica, off Antarctica, May 20, 1898: Explorer Frederick Cook

Q: How did we end up here? A: We can, if need be, ransack the whole globe, penetrate into the bowels of the earth, descend to the bottom of the deep, travel to the farthest regions of this world, to acquire wealth, to increase our knowledge, or even only to please our eye and fancy. (William Derham, 1711)

The invention of the ship is also the invention of the shipwreck...

It seemed possible that we'd traveled across the world in error.

What Rilke said: Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further.

Back in August 1960 an American pilot called Joe Kittinger climbed into the open gondola beneath a balloon called Excelsior III and floated up to 102,800 feet. At this point, 20 miles above the Earth in what is technically space, he jumped. Moments later he became the first man to go through the sound barrier without the benefit of a plane. It was, and still is, the highest parachute jump ever, and it proved you can 'abandon ship' even when you're in space.

Flying means boredom. Next time you're going away, just drive. You can leave when you want. You don't have to sit next to a stranger. You can listen to all sorts of loud music without headphones and look at things out of the window that aren't just clouds. Driving is sensible alternative to flying.

Three chums would find themselves at a loose end for whatever reason and would agree to travel together to foreign lands for the purposes of cultural and spiritual enrichment.

As we explore later in this chapter, virtually no asset, except for long-term U.S. Treasury bonds, served as an effective hedge against the sudden and sharp decline in asset values that took place during the financial crisis.

This is an old problem: Knowledge calls for more knowledge,

She ran her hands across the bark, imagining herself at the foot of some planet-traversing colossus who was standing still to allow her up for a visit.

Jeremy Robert Johnson

I am the creator of my own prism of infinite realities. Every one I peel back will lead to another. And I will never really be sure if any of them are real.

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.