You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

Why then seek to complete in a few decades what took the other nations of the world thousands of years? Why, in your hurry to subdue and utilize nature, squander her splendid gifts? You have...

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I...

The echo of two boys playing in a pool testing each other to see who could hold their breath the longest.… Whadda ya wanna do now?— I know, we could wrestle like the Roman gladiators—...

A story is not like a road to follow … it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering...

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don’t normally get to go.

The camera basically is a license to explore.

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a...

We will put in place a fair and just market mechanism for the exploration of resources. We will straighten out all kinds of economic regulation in the field of exploration of mineral resources. We will...

We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a...

All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us...

The depth of a man is a limit only he can know, should he have the courage to explore into the dark.

But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for which he personally had little use) and almost ignorant of Nature: Adler, reducing almost everything to the will...

We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always been that way. Even those history books enamored of the voyages of Christopher...

Just finished [Capitalist in North Korea]—fascinating! What an experience. Wow.” —Justin Rohrlich, Emmy Award Winner, Head Writer, Minyanville’s World In Review

The map? I will first make it.

The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.

There is a difference between what I actually want and what I want to have fantasies about. (…) There is a part of my imagination which is a playground, a playground in which I am...

Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips…

The state of technology (for undersea exploration) is still in its infancy, … We have 90 years and two countries’ worth of experience in space exploration — and maybe a dozen real serious underwater habitats....

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to...

Part of the urge to explore is a desire to become lost.

Clipper could also support exploration of the Moon. The concept could even be aimed at going much further.

If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants occurring in these laws are finally expressed through the four independent basic constants, we will be able to...

Venus has become somewhat of a ‘forgotten planet’ with the emphasis on Mars exploration in the U.S.. But Venus can tell us about Earth’s future and about planets around other stars — I expect we...

Space, as you can see, is a complete void, nothing but clear air, without solid objects or the illumination of light. On some of our photographs of space, however, studied close to, even without a...

Once upon a time, we soared into the Solar System. For a few years. Then we hurried back. Why? What happened? What was ‘Apollo’ really about?

Their violence (the jungle wars of the ’70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perversions are...

Wandering is the activity of the child, the passion of the genius; it is the discovery of the self, the discovery of the outside world, and the learning of how the self is both “at...

In real life, the big things and the little things are inextricably mixed up together, so in Libya at one moment, one worried because one’s native boots were full of holes, and at the next,...

Sex is a form of exploration; it is asking questions and getting answer

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.

While National Geographic magazine had given me a taste of the world, the three-dimensional details of this moment – the tickle of the rain drops, the suck sound of my feet in the mud, the...

I’m nineteen tree rings and mashed acorns stop up my veins when I can’t clot. Oh god, you beautiful person, I’ll let you lick the salt off of my tattoos as if they were wounds,...

The symbolism seemed so apt. The same technology that can propel apocalyptic weapons from continent to continent would enable the first human voyage to another planet. It was a choice of fitting mythic power: to...

My ambition is not to leave behind me a pile of money for my heirs to quarrel about, but to find out what there is of interest in this world before I cross the border...

I do know creative exploration never ages or dies,

Flammflorbs, archypodsplays, clinker crabs, dorsaldorydabbs, mingslakks, linglimes, occocobbers, firgengobblers, smitesnides, orkusta shelled bunkbarnacles, balootabinks, jorgentua jellyfish, tungol widders, teleosti chimaras, and things stranger, yet to be named, Klubbe and his crew members observed through their...

Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth,...

It’s an exciting place. That’s what exploration is all about. You go out there. It isn’t A. It isn’t B. It isn’t C. It’s D, none of the above.

To wander is to be alive.

The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan….

Don’t allow others to make you feel small. You came to this world to grow and to explore and touch the miracles and marvels of life.

To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to...

If you do something that has never been done you will collect treasures that have never been found.

Life is short. The world is big. It awaits your exploration. If you’re not living on the edge, you’re just taking up way too much space.

They might be drugs that alter the states of consciousness, or they might be states of transcendence reached in meditation. They might be moments of orgasm, or fugue states, or day-dreams that take you momentarily...

Stand up; Grow up and Climb up. The reason why you can’t see farther and further is because you didn’t climb higher. Be willing to explore and be informed!

You take a step, then another. That’s the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it’s a remaking of your own mind.