Josh Gates Quotes

• 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.

  Josh Gates

  Adventure, Black, Momentum

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

  Josh Gates

  Journey, What Matters, Secret

  Josh Gates (2011). “Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Seeing the world is a prerequisite to understanding one’s place in it.

  Josh Gates

  Understanding, World, Prerequisites

  Josh Gates (2011). “Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Responsibility, Opportunity, Perspective

  Josh Gates (2011). “Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Rip, Pants, Sometimes

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• 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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  Home, Growth, Doe

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• My world view has always been that there's just an enormous amount of cultural and religious diversity out there, all of which is really worth taking in.

  Josh Gates

  Religious, Diversity, World

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• 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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  Running, Travel, Wish

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• 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.

  Josh Gates

  Keys, Stories, Bears

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• 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.

  Josh Gates

  Important, Patient, Hospitals

  Josh Gates (2011). “Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The magnificent thing about her [Amelia Earhart] is, in the eyes of the world, she simply never died. Her fear never witnessed, her failure never recorded, her shiny twin-engine Electra never recovered. Earhart's legacy of inspiration is amplified because her adventure is perpetual. We don't think of her as dead; we think of her as missing. She is forever flying, somewhere beyond Lae, over that limitless blue horizon.

  Josh Gates

  Inspiration, Adventure, Eye

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• 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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  Fun, Thinking, Reminiscing

  Josh Gates (2011). “Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Moving, Adventure, One Direction

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