Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.
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I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.
It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
I'm an explorer.
I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.
Explorers have to be ready to die lost.
Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.
The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.
The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.
Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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