Quotes About Exploration

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

If you look up a word in the dictionary, you find it defined by a string of other words, the meanings of which can be discovered by looking them up in a dictionary, leading to more words that can be looked up in turn. There is no exit from the dictionary.

The strange thing about ships is despite them being crowded and stinky and at the mercy of Nature, most times they are like wooden islands of freedom, free from petty concerns and the laws of the land.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery."

Het was een vergissing vanwege de juf, te denken dat alleen de dingen die in de boeken staan interessant zijn. Ook deze, die er nog niet in staan, zijn merkwaardig.

But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.

How old was I before I realized there were other places besides right here?" Seven

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

When reading, one needs to remember that poets and philosophers are not prescribing courses of action but exploring aspects of existence.

Adventure, free of actual risk, is hard to produce.

Aside from forest fire, there's nothing to be afraid of in the woods, except yourself. If you've got sense, you can keep out of trouble. If you haven't got sense, you'll get into trouble, here or anywhere else.

Read. Read as if your life depended on it because your life as a novelist does.

When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.

YOU CAN'T BE TOO OLD TO SPY EXCEPT IF YOU WERE FIFTY YOU MIGHT FALL OFF A FIRE ESCAPE, BUT YOU COULD SPY AROUND ON THE GROUND A LOT.

I am Willing to Learn New Things Every Day," (Hay, 2018, p. 116). Hay, L. L. (2018) Trust life: love yourself every day with wisdom from Louise Hay. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, Inc.

I am a student of life, and I love it.

I go beyond barriers into possibilities.

New careers can start at any age, especially when you do it for the fun of it.

What did falling in love do for you? Can you ever really explain it? It filled empty spaces I never knew were empty. It cured a loneliness I never knew I had. It gave me joy. And freedom. I think that was the most amazing part. I suddenly felt both embraced and freed at the same time.

Not everyone's an explorer, and not every explorer makes it back alive. That's why it takes so much courage.

You weren't lost. You were exploring. There's a difference.