Quotes About Exploration

I have discovered that most ofthe beauties of travel are due tothe strange hours we keep to see them.

They enter the new world naked,cold, uncertain of allsave that they enter.

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. (Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays)

Everything I've never done, I want to do with you.

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

You never know what you can do till you try.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roamExcels a dunce that has been kept at home!

Variety's the very spice of life.

Three things alone are certain when you venture into a loft: that you will crack your head on a beam at least twice, that you will get cobwebs draped over your face, and that you will not find what you went looking for.

Go forth under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings.

Finally, at two minutes to three, in the sweltering heat of a Mesopotamian summer afternoon, I crossed the no-man's land into Syria.

Crossing the Black Water

Travels in the Mogul Empire and Manucci's Mogul India.

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

I felt the weight of unmapped worlds, unborn language.

The particulars of new places grabbed me and held me, the sweep of new coasts, cold, lovely dawns. The world was incomprehensibly large, and there was still so much to see.... I liked surrendering to the onrush, the uncertainty, the serendipity of the road. And I generally liked being a stranger, an observer, often surprised.

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

Were there darker provinces of night he would have found them. —CORMAC MCCARTHY, Child of God, 1973