Quotes About Navigation

Pirates worked to avoid violence and fighting.

When we come up upon a wall, it matters. We have to plan around it. It's a mitigating factor if you're trying to enter or cross from point A to point B.

Google Earth has become a little bit of an icon in our society. You get on maps and you wanna see what the quality of the road's like, you go on Google Maps.

A guru is like a live road map. If you want to walk uncharted terrain, I think it is sensible to walk with a road map.

I couldn't work out how to get home. Someone moved the mountains.

You know, a man's life is a lot like a boat. If he keeps his sail set right it doesn't make too much difference which way the wind blows or which way the current flows. If he knows where he wants to go and keeps his sail trimmed carefully he'll come into the right port. But if he forgets to watch his sail till the current catches him broadside he's pretty apt to smash up on the rocks.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.

In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels.

The international code for signalling with a whistle is: One blast – Where are you? Two blasts – Come to me Three blasts – I need help Response – One blast

most expeditions lacked something Vance had at his disposal: the astrolabe

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

Anyone who knows me knows I'm geographically challenged.

The Channel is an international waterway through which the Russians are quite free to pass - and over which we have no exclusive right.

There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

Children, Landon said, are good at getting lost, because the key in survival is knowing you're lost: they don't stray far, they curl up in some sheltered place at night, they know they need help.

Explorers, the historian Aaron Sachs wrote me in answer to a question, "were always lost, because they'd never been to these places before. They never expected to know exactly where they were. Yet, at the same time, many of them knew their instruments pretty well and understood their trajectories within a reasonable degree of accuracy. In my opinion, their most important skill was simply a sense of optimism about surviving and finding their way.

Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of the world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.

However beautiful the stars of a suddenly visible night sky, few nowadays could find their way by them.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.

The only people who believe in straight roads are generals & mail coach drivers.

You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you, but if you're a good navigator, at least you'll know where you were when you died. (In The Nautical Chart by Arturo Perez-Reverte)