Quotes About Exploration

It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone.

How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for creativity - an asset slowly disappearing from our world.

In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.

The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.

Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I'm better off Alone.

A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.

It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.

The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.

There's so much of this beautiful planet that is still actually spectacular and stimulating. There are so many amazing people that you meet along the way.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

What you are doing is exploring. You are undertaking the first experience, not of the place, but of yourself in that place... nobody can discover the world for anybody else. It is only after we have discovered it for ourselves that it becomes a common ground and a common bond, and we cease to be alone.

She seems to give a respectful credence to the statement that "God is loveonly to hurry on to explore with real interest the possibility that God is wrath." She can read from the book of Revelation with a ringing conviction in her voice that can make the creation seem only a stage setting for the triumphant thunderation of end.