Quotes About Exploration

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

May books and nature be their early joy!

My perfect weekend... anything to do with nature.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.

Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things.

Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.

The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.

Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the earth.

The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.

It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.