Exploration Quotes

We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.

The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the Sun goes down. He appears to migrate westward daily and tempt us to follow him. He is the Great Western Pioneer whom the nations follow. We dream all night of those mountain ridges in the horizon, though they may be of vapor only, which were last gilded by his rays.

Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.

Go at least once a year to a place you've never been before.

The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.

I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.

Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

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

There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.

There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a neighbor, there is anunsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.

I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.

I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched.

To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.

I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth

Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it.

Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?

It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

The wonders of nature are endless.

There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.