Quotes About Frontier

America's love affair with traveling into outer space is deeply entrenched.

The original 'Star Trek' is very much a product of the '60s - the new frontier, optimism, the idea of bringing democracy to the galaxy. It's still a timeless show, but it's very much a show made in the 1960s.

The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.

The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

Wow. Pioneers with ice-cream." Joshua felt motivated to defend his home. "Well, it doesn't have to be like the Donner Party, Sally-

If the human race is to continue for another million years, we will have to boldly go where no one has gone before

When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.

They are our last frontier. They shot the railway-train when it first came, And when the Fords first came, they shot the Fords. It could not save them. They are dying now Of being educated, which is the same. One need not weep romantic tears for them, But when the last moonshiner buys his radio, And the last, lost, wild-rabbit of a girl Is civilized with a mail-order dress, Something will pass that was American And all the movies will not bring it back.

'The Big Sky' is an American classic.

The reason people in Brilliant wanted John Chapman to stay and plant a nursery was the same reason he would soon be welcome in every cabin in Ohio: Johnny Appleseed was bringing the gift of alcohol to the frontier.

A vegetarian living on the frontier, he deemed it a cruelty to ride a horse or chop down a tree; he once punished his own foot for squashing a worm by throwing away its shoe.

This is free ground. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by what your father was. Here you can be something. Here's a place to build a home. It isn't the land

pitching deck of an icebreaker.

I was almost one of The Magnificent Seven. I love horses and guns.

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

There's plenty of housework to be done here on Earth, and our commitment to it must be steadfast. But we're the kind of species that needs a frontier—for fundamental biological reasons. Every time humanity stretches itself and turns a new corner, it receives a jolt of productive vitality that can carry it for centuries.

Nuestro planeta y nuestro sistema solar se hallan rodeados por un nuevo mundo oceánico, las profundidades del espacio. Y no es más infranqueable que el de otras épocas.

This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to , but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate . . .)

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.

A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas.

All we had were maps that said "unsurveyed.

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