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Years later, another member [of the Royal Geographical Society] conceded, "Explorers are not, perhaps, the most promising people with whom to build a society. Indeed, some might say that explorers become explorers precisely because they have a streak of unsociability and a need to remove themselves at regular intervals as far as possible from their fellow men.


David Grann


#men

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.


Russell Hoban


#explorers #lost #ready

The real significance of Magellan's voyage was not that it was the first to circumnavigate the planet, but that it was the first to realize just how big that planet was.


Bill Bryson


#globe #history #magellan #home

For over a century, an evolving microcosm of Anthropology’s turbulent history has hidden behind the staid façade of the American Museum of Natural History. From an insider’s perspective, the well-known ethnologist Stan Freed engagingly introduces us to an amazing cast of explorers, eccentrics, idealists, pranksters and forbidding intellectual - an unlikely mix that played a key role in establishing the science of Anthropology as we know it today.


Ian Tattersall


#explorer #history #museums #nature

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.


Robert Ballard


#explorer #hunter #i #i am #treasure

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?


Gregory Bateson


#answer #epistemology #explorer #heart #inevitably

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.


Bjork


#being #explorer #i #i love #like

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.


Carl Clinton Van Doren


#cooper #did #explorers #few #fiction

I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.


Illeana Douglas


#card #clothing #cowboy #dress #dressed

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.


Mignon McLaughlin


#become #city #days #during #explorers






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