Quotes About Exploration

Stop worrying where you're going. Move on. If you can know where you're going, you've gone. Just keep moving on.

Into the Woods, then Out of the Woods..and home before dark!

Take me to a world where I can be alive

Stefansson was once asked by an Eskimo to whom he was showing a pair of binoculars for the first time whether he could 'see into tomorrow' with them. . . . What the Inuk probably meant was, Are those things powerful enough to see something that will not reach you for another day. . . . which you yourself will not reach for another day [Barry Lopez]?

There is a wilderness we walk alone However well-companioned

The ant finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

Life was a storm to wander through.

I went north I did not try to hide myself. When a god or a demon saw me, then I would die, but meanwhile I was no longer afraid. My hunger for knowledge burned in me there was so much that I could not understand.

If I don't try to move, I don't have to find out what parts don't work. Lauren Crowder to Alan Gregory

My goal is simple. It is the complete understanding of the Universe.

I'm committed to seeing this project done. To see if within this decade we can finally hold in our hands the rule for our universe, and know where our universe lies in the space of all possible universes.

I've always wanted to sail to the south seas, but I can't afford it." What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of "security." And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine - and before we know it our lives are gone.

You should not have to burn your hand every day to feel the mystery of fire.

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

No vayas a donde el camino te puede conducir, ve a un lugar donde no haya camino y deja un rastro. ANÓNIMO

And it is a fact an absolute fact that there are creatures on the surface of this earth that have never been studied by man . . . There are other worls - worlds within this world - that we can only begin to imagine. We may think we have seen all that there is to be seen on this tiny planet of ours. We most certainly have not - and perhaps never shall.

her first step carried her into a bush.

We find what we search for.

The human system does not really want comfort, it wants challenge. It wants adventure.

On your death bed, you will not wish you had been more comfortable, or that you had found an even easier, softer pleasure zone to hide out in. You will wish you had ventured out more. That you had spoken up more. Tried some things. Reinvented yourself one more time.

I would happily do a third one; perhaps we could leave Europe and eat our way around America next time.

That's the beauty of freedom Sam. You never know what happens next. And the only way to know how freedom works — — is to work at it.

But Sometimes Ask

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.