Quotes About Exploration

Reading good novels can make almost anything seem imaginable

You just go up the Hudson," I told him. "Sure, man," he said. "Up the what?

no planning, Graff--that's the first thing. No mapping it out, no dates to get anywhere, no dates to get back. Just think of things! Think of mountains, say, or think of beaches. Think of rich widows and farm girls! Then just point to where you feel they'll be, and pick the roads the same way too--pick them for the curves and hills. That's the second thing--to pick roads that the beast will love.

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried.

Bromley Mountain. It was close to

Later, some kind of animal—Gloyd described it to him as a six-legged mammal, half mouth—vaulted from a burrow and tore into one of the injured. It took five exhausted sentries to slay the beast. One of Devore's mining specialists cast a chunk of the creature's body into the campfire and sampled a piece. She vomited blood and died within heartbeats.

Starships are fun to fly around in, but they're no place to entertain.

There was life in outer space, but you didn't want to get it on you.

Keep moving! Destroy barriers! See everything!

Starfleet, where keeping decorum ranked just beneath exploration as its reason for existing.

Emigrant Gap. Califo

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

He who follows the feathered inhabitants of the forest and plains, however rough or tangled the paths may be, seldom fails to obtain the objects of his pursuit, provided he be possessed of due enthusiasm and perseverance.

I feel more and more every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds.

Then felt I like like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Like stout Cortes when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific-and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise Silent upon a peak in Darien

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.

Open wide the mind's cage-door, She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.

In Endymion I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.

When through the old oak forest I am gone, Let me not wander in a barren dream.

Let the winged Fancy roam Pleasure never is at home.

Oh, sweet Fancy! Let her loose; Everything is spoilt by use (...) Let the winged Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home

I should have known that every time I open the door of my room I am literally opening a Pandora's Box.

to pursue the gold deposits that were presumed to exist in the great North American territory of Louisiana. There was no evidence of the gold, but this, as ever in such episodes, was no time for doubters or doubting