exploration quotes

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I’m a pop singer for Christ’s sake. As a person, I’m fairly uncomplicated.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I love all kinds of insects, and I’ve heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.