Quotes About Exploration

Make your life an adventure, because every task leads you to new discoveries, new acquaintances and new experiences.

I'm not single, I'm in a long term relationship with adventure and fun.

Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it

The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as youve never explored before, what human nature is like.

I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. —SIR ISAAC NEWTON

Chauvet Cave: The Discovery of the World's Oldest Paintings, Jean-Marie Chauvet

They wound their way through a labyrinth of streets, partly following their noses, partly the orientation of the map. Jardines, Mirasol, Cruz, Puentezuelas, Capuchinas... Each word held its magic. They were like brushstrokes painting the landscape of the city, each one helping to build up a picture of the whole.

It seemed I had briefly stepped into a world where people did wild things and paid for them; but it had made me see that there was more to life than being comfortable and living one day after another, quietly, unadventurously, almost like waiting for death.

WITH LYLE, I SAW the real world of wine. Our trips weren't sponsored, and we paid our way equally, allowing us to experience regions on our terms.

Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors.

it. I was venturing into a wilderness many had explored before me, crossing the threshold separating those who had killed from those who had not.

As with the Westerner, the Easterner was never so bored as he was when on his own shores.

I want to travel anywhere I want, anytime I want. I want to come back here and know I can leave.

I think of the novelist Haruki Murakami, who compares writing a novel to digging a hole through deep rock to reach a source of water.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.

The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.

You must never take a direct route to your destination.

Train journeys are about possibilities. They denote a change in state. When you arrive, you are no longer the same person who departed.

Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols, she felt a sense of wonder at the great territories of learning that lay beyond her - the sum of so many noble and purposive attempts to make objective sense of the world.

My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?

A good quote is like a handle of the bicycle which has the power to take you onto the beautiful path of life.

A man is not a man until he leaves his home or has a house of his own.

He who leaves and then returns will have a good trip.