Quotes About Exploration

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine.

I want to ride in a cold air balloon. "This isn't going anywhere!"

When I first saw a strap on, I put it on my head and ran around like a rhino.

You haven't lived until you've died in California

When you're three, you're into custard, and jumping.

Our first stop was red square, the heart of Moscow - if Moscow has one.

It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

Sunshine is my quest.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.

I had never been to second base.

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.

Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is.