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Quotes About Exploration

The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
The mountains are calling and I must go.
~ John Muir
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
~ David Attenborough
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...
~ David Attenborough
I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.
~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.
~ Thomas Berry
To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?
~ Yuri Gagarin
It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.
~ Art Wolfe
Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.
~ Martha Beck
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
~ John Muir
Nature Boy, whats that? Do you run around the forest like Euell Gibbons, eating bark or something?
~ Roddy Piper
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.
~ Loren Eiseley
Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful
~ Thomas M. Disch
If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.
~ Frank Herbert
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast
~ Paul Scott Mowrer
That's the nature of research you don't know what in hell you're doing.
~ Harold Eugene Edgerton
The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.
~ Nancy Newhall
It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.
~ Gunter Grass
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside
~ Anne Frank
Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
~ Neil Armstrong
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!
~ Bill Watterson
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
~ Diane Arbus
I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
~ Emily Bronte