Quotes About Exploration

qualunque cosa noi facciamo, kertész l'ha fatto prima.

We have read as many texts as possible.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

Books are boring to read. You can't move around in them as you wish. You are asked to follow. The trail is traced, one way.

The best path through life is the highway.

The end we know not; but we wander on, down the regretful wilderness of time.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Headed by Roger Conant, a man still clear to us as possessed of leadership and force, these four went southward and westward from Cape Ann and settled at a place called Naumkeag, to be better known in future as Salem.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and the most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter the swamp as a sacred place--a sanctum sanctorum; there is the strength, the marrow of Nature.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

We can never have enough of nature.

A man may stand there [Cape Cod] and put all America behind him.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

The swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.