Quotes About Exploration

Here also I killed my first centipede — a hideous fellow, six inches long, a quarter of an inch across the back, and with about a hundred bow-legs, each tipped with a black fang. Let one walk across your hand undisturbed, and he leaves a highly inflamed red track. Hit him during that march, and he will sink those hundred fangs into your flesh, and it will rot away and drop from the bones. Rattlesnakes and huge, hairy "bush-spiders" are also common enough;

Are there not railroads and Pullmans enough, that you must walk? That is what a great many of my friends said when they learned of my determination to travel from Ohio to California on foot; and very likely it is the question that will first come to your mind in reading of the longest walk for pure pleasure that is on record.

No less than the tourist, the writer of history profits from maps.

The race to the Moon

We cannot define. Nothing has ever been finally figured out, because there is nothing final to figure out

It's like looking for a needle that no one ever lost in a haystack that never was—

I think we're property. I should say we belong to something: That once upon a time, this earth was No-man's Land, that other worlds explored and colonized here, and fought among themselves for possession, but that now it's owned by something: That something owns this earth -- all others warned off.

It appears that the charts must have originated with a people unknown; that they were passed on, perhaps by the Minoans (the Sea Kings of ancient Crete) and the Phoenicians, who were for a thousand years and more the greatest sailors of the ancient world. We have evidence that they were collected and studied in the great library of Alexandria and that compilations of them were made by the greographers who worked there.

God save me from him who studies but one book.

Let your imagination take you wherever you want to be.

Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

Far far away, behind the word mountains, there live the blind texts. They live at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. One day a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn't listen.

When I got the library card, that was when my life began.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Campers: Nature's way of feeding mosquitoes.

Give me a field where the unmowed grass grows...

Seek the wilderness, for there is peace.

May your search through Nature lead you to yourself.

There are lots of opport?nities o?t there. And yo? know what's missing.

PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.