Quotes About Exploration

The best date I've had would probably have to be one where I went hiking to a big mountain here in New York.

I'm big into mountain biking.

I've never looked at film-making as a career. I've looked on film-making as an adventure. When you come down the mountain, you get ready to climb again.

My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.

We lived in Colorado, and my parents were outdoorsy mountain people. My father would always say, 'Go out and don't come back until you have something to show me.' Which meant he wanted me to come back with a scraped knee or an injury. When I went out to play, I felt like I'd better get hurt.

There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.

I remember, in school during English lessons, I would ask the teacher what were the most difficult books to read, and when she'd say 'Ulysses' or something, I'd run off to the library to check out a copy, eager to attempt the most difficult mountain.

The things I like to do involve a lot of mental focus, a combination of physical and mental challenge. That is what mountain climbing is.

I have always said that a mountain without danger is not a mountain.

Everest is how it is right now. We have to fix ropes up there; we have the commercial expeditions. If you don't like that, go on another mountain or choose another part of the mountain. There's still space for everybody.

I was 5 when I went up my first 10,000 ft mountain, with my parents, and I have been climbing ever since.

I still value the adventurous side, confronting the mountain on its terms, more than I value actual success in terms of getting to the top. That has very little meaning to me.

Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.

This is one of my definitions of mountaineering: to go where others do not.

Extreme high-altitude mountaineering deserves its place among the world's most extreme sports.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

I learn something every time I go into the mountains.

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

Living in Delhi, I head to the mountains or the seaside at every chance I get. I like bungee-jumping and rafting in Rishikesh.

I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.

I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

What you do once you're beyond the confines of your local lift service can be as limitless as the mountains themselves.

I love hiking to the top of mountains in L.A. and seeing incredible landscapes. It really inspires me.