Quotes About Exploration

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

A man who limits his interests limits his life.

If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.

Darius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also man's dominion, And that, with paddle or fins or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure, as now we sail the sea.

We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

Where oil is first found is in the minds of men

I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

God walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon.

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

The footprints of a free-minded man are always towards the forward direction.