Nelson DeMille Quotes

There is a lot of the world that is undiscovered.

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books.

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

Some persons were to be sent in search of the river Missouri in order to discover whether it had any communication with the Pacific Ocean …

I've always been interested in exploration and the history of exploring the world, but it seems like we've found everything now.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.

It's more of an adventure when you set off into unknown territory, and there's nothing like that feeling you get when you discover a place on the Earth where no one has ever been.

The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

It's always good to have a world that people don't know about - a world that hasn't yet been done. It's like treading on fresh snow. You're the first one there.

I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

A river reaches places its source never knows.

I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.