Unmapped Territory Quotes

There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.

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.

Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?

I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.

I really love going places without a map.

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. ... All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.