Quotes About Exploration

If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for gold; whether that's a simplification or not. If you think of 'Chariot of the Gods,' there's this reoccurring theme of gold.

'The Odyssey' is a great poem to refugee-dom... Odysseus is not entirely a refugee... he's somebody who's blown off course. The entire book is an exploration of that theme... I reread it every year... That's not as surprising as it sounds, because it's a rip-roaring book.

I like to try to capture places that a lot of people went to or have a deep emotional connection to. Malls, abandoned speedways, abandoned theme parks. To me, those are most interesting kinds of things to capture.

I'm not that sort of writer where I can restrict myself to a theme, just in case nothing good comes of it.

All of the Flying Lotus records are exploring similar themes: These questions in my mind about what's next and what's beyond.

a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. —Frank A. Clark

Oregon, because

man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. —GEORGE MOORE

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: Not going all the way, and not starting.

RV. His hands plunged into his pockets, heading toward

I found him, I want to get to know him, I want to understand him. Everything. I want to understand everything. And that takes time. And there's no place I have to be right now.

They love that rock. Ever been to Yosemite?" She shook her head.

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

Mountains pulled and pushed, wind roared down chasms. I followed eagles suspended from cloud horizons. I wanted to fly in the unlimited blue of the morning.

I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.

It's important that we leave each other and the comfort of it, and circle away, even though it's hard sometimes, so that we can come back and swap information about what we've learnt even if what we do changes us and

desert time refused to structure itself. It preferred instead to flow in curlicues, vortices and tunnels,...

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

The world tends toward chaos, you know," Cassidy said. You could too. Just write down a made up name, or even a fictional character. And the next person who finds this geocache, it's as though things really hapened that way. You have to at least allow for the possibility of it.

But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down a different road.

One thing I've realized about new places is that they're like jeans. Sure, they might fit in, but they're not comfortable. They need time to be broken in

We're taking the road beyond the road less traveled, and being on time will make all difference.

There's a word for it," she told me, "in French, for when you have a lingering immersion of something having passed by. Sillage. I always think of it when a firework explores and lights up the smoke from the ones before it.

So where are we going?" "Where we have no business being, other than the business of mischief and deception.