Quotes About Exploration

Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

The first step ... shall be to lose the way.

We cannot learn to fly by following the tracks left by birds in the sand. We must find our own wings and soar.

When there is an openness to fear, where can it be found?

Soul Mountain, the story of one man's quest for inner peace and freedom.

This,' whispered the Doctor to Romana, 'is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.

Girls who kiss boys, girls who date them, girls who call them on the phone... that's all they do. There are other things I want to do.

The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

Birds fly, fish swim, and children play.

Unfettered inquisitiveness, it is clear, teaches better than do intimidating assignments.

He walks through social barriers and taboos as if they were cobwebs.

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Choose to chance the rapids; dare to dance the tide

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

You could wish to travel to the sky with a jump, but, unless your legs were mountains or you had a map charting where the high blue reached close, no words could take you there, and no king or queen could, even if willing, finance such a leap.

it's not the solution, it's the path to the solution that is fascinating

Spring break! Were there any two words ever put together that make a more beautiful sound?

Often, for me, the best ideas come out of extreme situations in unknown terrain, whether in cycling or in business. Pushing beyond what I think I can do creates an opening for new ideas.

Common observation confirms that a mobile, exploring toddler learns faster and more efficiently than the child whose feet never leave the couch and whose eyes never leave the T.V. screen.