Quotes About Exploration

The world was hers for the reading.

To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things. I love inquiring into the nature of things.

There were undoubtedly worse things than being an unmarried woman in charge of her own life, free to come and go as she pleased, free to explore pleasure.

Pirate thoughts.

Las sergas de Esplandian,

Black Spaniard by the name of Estabanico. He,

Jim Beckwourth,

I held the letter—a window to another world. Did I dare open it?

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

Wandering is an essential counterbalance to efficiency.

Earth is the best planet in our solar system. We go to space to save Earth.

The oil companies don't need an incentive of $4 billion to go out and explore. As my grandpop would say, 'They're doing just fine, thank you'.

Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Nicedir sisin içinde yürüyorum. Dü?üncelerimin bu yola girmi? olmas? bo?una de?il. Sis demek, biliyorum, doru?a yakla?makta olmak demek.

Tepeci?in ard?nda yeni mahallelere ula?aca??m? m? sanm??t?m, nedir? Iss?zl???n içinde buldum kendimi.

I was digging with a fork out of the kitchen drawer sewing tictacs , I didn't know what the hell I was doing. After a bit I got bored and just started burying cheap spoons to baffle the archaeologists of the future.

Bill Brittain

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

It could be Paris. It could be Rio de Janeiro. It could be anywhere but home: someplace, anyplace, disorienting enough to make him notice what he wouldn't otherwise see. (The medicinal benefits of disorientation can never be overestimated.)

A bicycle does get you there and more.... And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun.

The frontiers were sort of wide open. It was that sense of excitement that we really wanted to spark in everybody else wherever we went.