Quotes About Exploration

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.

That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

We must go and see for ourselves.

Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Study nature not books

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.

One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the magic veil of nature

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.

The more you look, the more you will see.

Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.