Quotes About Exploration

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

Even so, I'm somebody. I'm the Discoverer of Nature. I'm the Argonaut of true sensations. I bring a new Universe to the Universe Because I bring the Universe to itself.

The Tejo runs down from Spain And the Tejo goes into the sea in Portugal. Everybody knows that. But not many people know the river of my village And where it comes from And where it's going. And so, because it belongs to less people, The river of my village is freer and greater.

Y por primera vez capto que ser joven no significa sólo tener pocos años, sino sentir más de la cuenta, sentir tanto que crees que vas a explotar.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.

Camp-keeping in the Delta was not all beer and skittles.

Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills not only because of their novelty, but because they represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The wilderness gave them their first taste of those rewards and penalties for wise and foolish acts which every woodsman faces daily, but against which civilization has built a thousand buffers.

The river was nowhere and everywhere, for he could not decide which of a hundred green lagoons offered the most pleasant and least speedy path to the Gulf. So he traveled them all, and so did we. He divided and rejoined, he twisted and turned, he meandered in awesome jungles, he all but ran in circles, he dallied with lovely groves, he got lost and was glad of it, and so were we. For the last word in procrastination, go travel with a river reluctant to lose his freedom in the sea.

He is the prospector of the air, perpetually searching its strata for olfactory gold.

I am well content that it should remain a mystery. What a dull world if we knew all about geese.

What a dull world if we knew all about geese!

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.

I do nothing but search and not find. That's how I waste my nights.