Quotes About Exploration

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

From a lofty perch Tarzan viewed the village of thatched huts across the intervening plantation.

the countless unnamed jewels of Mars

It is quite simple, being nothing more than a radium generator diffusing radio-activity in all directions to a distance of a hundred yards or so from the flier. Should

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

If you don't think it's lonesome wandering all by yourself through savage, unknown Pellucidar, why, just try it, and you will not wonder that I was glad of the company of this first dog

She told me that she was called Dian the Beautiful, and that she belonged to the tribe of Amoz, which dwells in the cliffs above the Darel Az, or shallow sea.

THE JOHN CARTER OF MARS COLLECTION ..................

THREE days crawled slowly out of the east and followed one another across the steaming jungle and over the edge of the world beyond.

You didn't find any trace of her? asked d'Arnot. // Tarzan shook his head. None. In the jungle, I could have found her; but here –-here, in civilization, a man cannot even find himself.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

missing. All I knew was that whatever I was looking for, I couldn't find it with anyone

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

East of the sun and west of the moon.

She would search for him. In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. But there was no way there.

Where is it? I asked, willing him to tell me. He laughed suddenly, and I could hear the full-throated, grating sound of the white bear's laughter in it. East of the sun and west of the moon, he said.

At some point we must plunge in to discover a greater expanse; yet when this broader horizon does appear, a new depth will open up at our point of entry.

She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them.

el matrimonio no era un anclaje en puerto seguro, como le habían enseñado, sino un viaje por mares que no figuran en los mapas.

To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guide-book, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the repletest sight-seer.