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Quotes About Exploration

The great thing about bushcraft is that wherever you go, the skills go with you.
~ Ray Mears
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.
~ Stephen Coonts
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
~ Charles de Gaulle
I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart.
~ Terence McKenna
To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.
~ Brad Bird
There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.
~ Len Lye
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
~ Will Self
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.
~ Nadia Boulanger
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
~ Christopher Columbus
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
~ Paul Valery
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
~ Virginia Woolf
I want to go to Australia so bad, do comedy there, and see the people there. It's a great country. I have friends that are Australian that have told me all about it. I want to do comedy there.
~ Brad Williams
I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.
~ Emily Ratajkowski
Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance.
~ Joseph Bayly
In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.
~ Joanna Lumley
I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.
~ Martha Stewart
I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character.
~ Elijah Wood
My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
There are many great minds on earth and not all are human.
~ Anthony Douglas
Danger, the spur of all great minds.
~ George Chapman
I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more.
~ Harrison Salisbury