Top 702 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Explorers - Page 5

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

If you live to be 1000 years old, I hope I live to be 1000 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

A pupil is a great resource.

At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his family. Anything and everything else he creates are insubstantial; they are ships given over to the mercy of the winds and tides of prejudice. but the family is an everlasting anchorage, a quiet harbor where a man's ships can be left to swing to the moorings of pride and loyalty.

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.

The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.

I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.

The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.

We can never right the wrongs of the past.

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.

I am no coward; but I am so strong, so hard to die.

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The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a whisper. The wind vane pointed toward the South Pole. Presently the wind cups ceased their gentle turning as the cold killed the breeze. My frozen breath hung like a cloud overhead. The day was dying, the night was being born-but with great peace. Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it!

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.

We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm.

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

Home is where the books are

A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.

People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England.

Shall I tell you what supported me through all those years of exile among a people whose language I could not understand and whose attitude towards me we always uncertain and often hostile? It was this: "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world".

Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it.

When I lost seven of my toes on Nanga Parbat and small parts of my fingertips I knew I'd never be a great rock climber. So I specialized in high-altitude climbing.

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath.

Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World.

With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.

No collection without compensation.

By endurance we conquer.

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars.

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.

Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.

The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.

Generally speaking, moving water is the most dangerous thing you can encounter underground.

Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.

To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.

Earth has few secrets from the birds.