“The taiga provides wonderful opportunities for truly long-distance expeditions into areas that are incredibly remote from civilisation. The spiritual reward of such… — Ray Mears Copy Share Image
Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it.… — Ben Saunders Copy Share Image
All my books draw heavily on my own experiences, and these are not just places I have gone to on holiday, they're… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the… — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back… — Greg Child Copy Share Image
Everest is how it is right now. We have to fix ropes up there; we have the commercial expeditions. If you don't… — Ueli Steck Copy Share Image
In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every… — Roald Amundsen Copy Share Image
The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the Almighty in his mercy allows us to settle peace among the christian leaders, we shall press on not only to… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Expeditions can greatly contribute towards building strength of character. Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim tells us that it is necessary for a… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of the Yeti, simply because I have an affiliation to Everest - who was the New… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
I like the pleasant things most women enjoy, even if I do wear breeches and boots on an expedition, even sleep in… — Louise Boyd Copy Share Image
In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to… — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
My first trip was the Appalachian Trail, and I was able to finish it despite having no skills and no experience when… — Andrew Skurka Copy Share Image
Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of… — Joe Rohde Copy Share Image
Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it,--to penetrate to the shores… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent. — Christo Copy Share Image
What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to… — Samina Baig Copy Share Image
I think that women on expeditions often get sucked into giving 150 percent of themselves because they feel they have to prove… — Ann Bancroft Copy Share Image
I'm not going to go on this fishing expedition that they want me to, that the Democrats want me to, the president… — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history… — Alan S. Kesselheim Copy Share Image
(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
The star of Bethlehem was a star of hope that led the wise men to the fulfillment of their expectations, the success… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their… — Gavin Douglas Copy Share Image
