Quotes About Exploration

I make it my business to extract from Nature whatever nutriment she can furnish me, though at the risk of endless iteration. I milk the sky and the earth.

Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre, without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all, but the Saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea.

Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of travelling & tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not travelling.

Live at home like a traveler.

Not till we are completely lost or turned around, do we begin to find ourselves.

Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find A thousand regions in your mind Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be Expert in home-cosmography.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?

Shall the world be confined to one Paris or one Oxford forever?

Když do sebe se zhloubi zahledíÅ¡, bezpo?et krajin uvidíÅ¡ – le? neobjevených. Nu, projdi je a sta? se znalcem vlastní kosmografie!

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

Quienes no conocen otras fuentes de verdad más puras, quienes no han seguido su curso hasta sus orígenes, están, y con razón, del lado de la Biblia y la Constitución y beben de ellas con reverencia y humildad. Pero aquellos que van más allá y buscan el origen del agua que gotea sobre el lago o la charca, se ciñen los lomos una vez más y siguen su peregrinación en busca del manantial.

I found my account in climbing a tree once. It was a tall white pine, on the top of a hill; and though I got well pitched, I was well paid for it, for I discovered new mountains in the horizon which I had never seen before—so much more of the earth and the heavens. I might have walked about the foot of the tree for threescore years and ten, and yet I certainly should never have seen them.

Mi región ofrece gran número de paseos espléndidos; y aunque durante muchos años he caminado prácticamente cada día, y a veces durante varios días, aún no los he agotado. Un panorama completamente nuevo me hace muy feliz, y sigo encontrando uno cada tarde. Dos o tres horas de camino me llevan a una zona tan desconocida como siempre espero. Una granja solitaria que no haya visto antes resulta a veces tan magnífica como los dominios del rey de Dahomey.

We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return—prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.

The only people who ever get any place interesting are the people who get lost. That's why the planets are so much better company than the stars — they keep wandering back and forth across the sky and you never know where you're going to find them.

Seveda pa nam ne bo ni? koristilo, da svoje korake usmerimo v gozdove, ?e nas ne bodo tudi zares ponesli tja. Vznemirim se, kadar se mi zgodi, da s svojim telesom potujem že kak kilometer skozi gozd, ne da bi tja prispel tudi v duhu.

Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find A thousand regions in your mind Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be Expert in home-cosmography."* What

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round—for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost—do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World.

Let them wander and scrutinize the outlandish Australians. I have more of God, they more of the road.

If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life. Think of a man's swinging dumbbells for his health, when those springs are bubbling up in far-off pastures unsought by him!

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Sigue un camino, aunque sea estrecho y torcido, en el que puedas caminar con amor y reverencia. / Este mundo no es sino un lienzo para nuestra imaginación.