Quotes About Exploration

I'll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal.

If you take employee engagement seriously, you take on a no halfway, no turning-back high adventure of finding out just how far your personal and organizational courage will take you.

There is a lot about what is going on here that I don't understand. But I am participating anyway.

It was starting to occur to me that Dr. Mensah might actually be an intrepid galactic explorer, even if she didn't look like the ones on the entertainment feed.

I had to run back the drone's camera feed to catch up, I had been so busy conquering that burst of non-annoyance.

I found it odd that the transport was less interested in Sanctuary Moon, which took place on a colony, than Worldhoppers, which was about the crew of a large exploration ship. You'd think it would be too much like work—I avoided serials about survey teams and mining installations—but maybe familiar things were easier for

I don't like planets. There's dust and weather, and something always wants to eat the humans.

I had stopped watching it when the mutants dragged off the group's biologist to eat him. Seriously, this was exactly the kind of situation I was designed to prevent.

I wouldn't bother searching the small storage spaces until we got down to the looking-for-all-the-body-parts phase.

Look, if there were space monsters, they probably wouldn't need a pressurized environment, right?

Sometimes you have to look into every possibility, even the dumb ones.

Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again.

Potential Target Leader and their friends aboard Stupid Boat

I hadn't looked at the maps yet and I'd barely looked at the survey package. In my defense, we'd been here twenty-two planetary days and I hadn't had to do anything but stand around watching humans make scans or take samples of dirt, rocks, water, and leaves. The sense of urgency just wasn't there. Also, you may have noticed, I don't care.

Let's investigate the dark cave without that pesky SecUnit" group.

I've never been on a contract on an uninhabited planet because if I was on the planet on a contract then we'd be inhabiting it.)

Asshole Research Transport

Si le pasaba algo al transporte, tendrían que volver a pata. Y nadarían, ya que había una masa de agua del tamaño de un océano entre esos dos puntos del mapa.

Don't go wishing for what you know nothing about.

I am not untidy," I objected. "I merely surround myself with a plethora of possibilities.

How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to the death camps. Yeah, and the rates for a third-class ticket, one way. And half price for children.... It was a kind of exploration of evil. Just how bad can we get?

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

commonality can most easily be seen in the seven common traits that all explorers possessed: curiosity, hope, passion, courage, independence, self-discipline, and perseverance. Explorers