Quotes About Exploration

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

The only new thing is history we don't know.

Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

I loved psychology and I loved history.

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

I like to imagine the "what ifs" of history.

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home.