Josh Gates Quotes

#1. We cannot bear for our most mysterious experiences to remain unexplained. I've therefore learned ... that every story has worth, since a person takes the time to tell it. The key is to listen.

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#2. When we can stand in the solitary presence of something magnificent, the obligation of sharing the experience evaporates, and we are free to truly be a part of it.

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#3. If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.

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#4. I've seen some things I can't explain and ... I've done things I can't quite explain.

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#5. Nothing like that warm and fuzzy Soviet architecture ... Pretty much as close to the Klingon home world as you're gonna get.

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#6. Travel does not exist without home ... If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.

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#7. What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*

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#8. Adventrue rewrites the routine of our lives and wakes us sharply from the comforts of the familiar. It allows us to see how vast the expanse of our experience. Our ability to grow is no longer linear but becomes unrestricted to any direction we wish to run.

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#9. I can't explain some of the things I've seen and ... I've done some things I can't explain.

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#10. Chernobyl haunts us with the reminder that all of man's ambitions are ephemeral. Our grandest designs and sturdiest monuments,

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#11. Sometimes, when you're this adventurous, you rip the crotch out of your pants.

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#12. When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.

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#13. Where can one buy a lit of that *Right Stuff* bravado required to shrug off the fact that your airplane is now a convertible?

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#14. They're both a bit cavalier about the whole thing at first; more than anything, they seem to think that it's going to be a lot of fun. Which it is, of course, but mostly in the way a plane crash is fun to reminisce about after you survive it.

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#15. The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters.

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#16. In flight ... entire days can be wound back or skipped over ... as we exist merely in a world of vapor. Adventures are both beginning and coming to a close up here as people from opposite ends of experience paradoxically move in one direction.

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#17. Seeing the world is a prerequisite to understanding one's place in it.

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#18. As travelers, it is our responsibility to adapt, otherwise we miss the whole point: the opportunity to gain a new perspective.

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#19. Beyond customs and norms and wildly variant beliefs, we all generally laugh, cry, and make our way along the dusty road of life in pretty much the same way.

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