Unfamiliar Terrain Quotes

Life is a journey through a foreign land.

I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in.

The hardest weeks for me are when I get to a course that I've never been to before or one that has been through a redesign.

Every time I lock my people in a spacecraft or land them on an asteroid, the blood wells up again, and I'm writing horror. Horror's my default setting. It's also where I prefer to write.

Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.

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.

This generation and the one to come will not see the end in fact of the Great War, so far as our economic and social problems are concerned…. the Great War broke all business conditions away from their past moorings and left the world's affairs adrift in a stormy sea without compass or rudder.

The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?

Seen through the eyes of a U.S. soldier, Afghanistan is a scary place.

I have always loved the wild places between the Sierra Nevada range and the Rocky Mountains. The east face of the Sierra Nevada is steep and largely unknown, a wonderful setting.

A lot of people were saying, 'I think you will play good on grass,' and I'm like, 'There's no way. I hate grass. I'm horrible.'

I love the fact that we are surrounded by this spectacular natural beauty that routinely strikes us dead. Hikers walk off into the woods and are never seen again. And still we tug on our fleece and skip off into the wilderness, not a care in the world.

I prefer to write about ordinary people who find themselves in a singularly bizarre situation - that is to say, the one moment in their lives when they are forced to confront danger or mystery.

I think it creates so many more opportunities and pitfalls in that you are treading on fresh snow, so you're in a new place.

Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.

If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.

In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.

The basic thing with adventure medicine or extreme medicine is that you are going to places where humans don't belong and people will certainly get into trouble.

Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.