Quotes About Exploration

And from there they traveled to the hill country of Ephraim and came to Micahís house.

Then he turned from him toward another and asked about the offer, and those people answered him just as the first ones had answered.

They crossed the Jordan and camped near Aroer, south of the town in the middle of the valley, and proceeded toward Gad and Jazer.

Then they went to Gilead and the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and on to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon.

At the end of nine months and twenty days, having gone through the whole land, they returned to Jerusalem.

So they divided the land to explore. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went the other way by himself.

and they journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, in search of pasture for their flocks.

Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the coast of Edom.

Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.

Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.

He hews out channels in the rocks, and his eyes spot every treasure.

Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?

He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.

the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

Others went out to sea in ships, conducting trade on the mighty waters.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,

And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!

I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

I went down to the walnut grove to see the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines were budding or the pomegranates were in bloom.

I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this: