Quotes About Exploration

So yes, this means dirt is good. Mud pies rule.

In its lifetime, an albatross is believed to fly around fifteen million miles.

In its lifetime, an albatross is believed to fly around fifteen million miles. To put that into perspective, it is the same as flying half way to Mars when it is at its closest distance to the Earth.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...

Sometimes the only way to know a thing is to know it first hand, Mr McCormack. See it. Taste it. Smell it. Then you know it

my drug was knowing. Knowing what was possible. Knowing how far it could go.

Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.

George Washington Carver explained, "Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough." Mindfulness is this kind

Fear is the membrane between what we know and something new. It tells us we are about to open to something bigger than the world we usually experience.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

We range the day And mount the sun. We soar past the rim of the world, And know not caution nor fear. But too soon the night comes. –Sigma Hotel

If they ask for me, Say, she rides where comets go, And outpaces light.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

getting run up a tree by a bear was part of the adventure and the fun of Glacier Park;

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

strategic planning is less useful, what replaces it? Strategic experimentation.

Push into your discomfort zone!