Humboldt’s early biographer, F.A. Schwarzenberg, subtitled his life of Humboldt What May Be Accomplished in a Lifetime. He summarised the areas of his subject’s extraordinary curiosity as follows: ‘1) The knowledge of the Earth and...

Advice to explorers everywhere: if you would like to recieve due credit for your discoveries, keep a detailed account of your journeys as Columbus did. On Septemeber 28, 1492, after four weeks at sea, he...

All children are born rebels and explorers until they’re taught to sit still and obey.

Every morning in the middle of nowhere, without electricity or anyone to impress, I’d take great care in picking out my outfit and hover in front of a business card-size mirror to apply my lip...

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.