Quotes About Exploration

Meetings with Remarkable Men

Our country—our world—is one of boundless opportunity waiting for you to explore.

Under such circumstances it would be better for him to go to Patagonia than to remain in England.

There is a kind of gratification in seeing what one has never seen before, be it ever so little worth seeing;

Ah; they never do that here. I have heard that there is a library, but the clue to it has been lost, and nobody now knows the way. I don't believe in libraries. Nobody ever goes into a library to read, any more than you would into a larder to eat. But there is this difference; — the food you consume does come out of the larders, but the books you read never come out of the libraries.

Uno se hace lector para completar lo inacabado. Para completarse

Le debo a Ezequiel el haberme enseñada que la vida no es más que eso: asomar la cabeza, para ver que pasa afuera, aunque haya tormenta.

Le debo a Ezequiel el haberme enseñado que la vida no es más que eso: asomar la cabeza para ver que pasa afuera, aunque haya tormenta.

I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

Here be the Dragons

Sometimes why is the most important question.

History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.

Two tadpoles at the bottom of a pond were one day discussing the problem of existence. One said to the other, "I think I will stick my head out to see if there is anything else in the world." The other tadpole said, "Don't be silly, do you think there is anything else in this world besides water?" So those who live the natural life ignore the beauty of the higher life of grace.

To become a mother, I feared, was to relinquish your status as the protagonist of your own life. Your questions were answered, your freedom was gone, your path would calcify in front of you. And yet it still pulled at me. Being a professional explorer would become largely impossible if I had a child, but having a kid seemed in many ways like the wildest possible trip.

We didn't sit around looking at our phone or looking at our computer or looking at the television. We didn't sit around looking at screens. We didn't wait for a screen to give us a signal to do something: We were off doing whatever we wanted." I

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

Adventure is worthwhile.

Men were first led to the study of philosophy, as indeed they are today, by wonder.

Happiness extends just as far as study extends, and the more someone studies, the happier he is...

The line, Lasko. Do you know anyone in San Francisco? Are you just gonna get off the train and take a streetcar to the swimming pool?" "I might. I could." "You have to have a plan, Lasko." "No, I don't. Not after this. I don't have to have a plan in the world.

Would she ever stop feeling like a colonist on the moon?

Inspiration is everywhere so don't get trapped in reading and watching too much. Get out. Talk to people, friends, family, loved ones. Draw inspiration from everyday life. It has inexhaustible references and is always original.

Did you say Ends of the Earth?!! I don't think I've enough gas for that!!

It is a fine thing to be a walking encyclopaedia of philosophy, but if you happen to have no liking for philosophy, and to have a like for the natural history of street-cries, much better leave philosophy alone, and take to street-cries.