Quotes About Exploration

O brave new world,That has such people in't!

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,I shot his fellow of the selfsame flightThe selfsame way with more advised watch,To find the other forth, and by adventuring both,I oft found both.

I must go seek some dew drops here,And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.

Over hill, over dale,Thorough bush, thorough brier,Over park, over pale,Thorough flood, thorough fire.

To seek their fortunes further than at home,Where small experience grows.

William Shakespeare

We that are in the vaward of our youth.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

We'd thought we were making a TV show; instead, we had flown boldly into legend.

Don't be afraid of taking chances, of striking out along paths that are untrod. Don't be afraid of failing. Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time—and look what I got.

The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

Before you have your dreams, your dreams have you, and every day pushes a night before it while the wilderness follows.

For my young friends who are still afraid There is a country to cross you will find in the corner of your eye, in the quick slip of your foot--air far down, a snap that might have caught. And maybe for you, for me, a high, passing voice that finds its way by being afraid. That country is there, for us, carried as it is crossed. What you fear will not go away: it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?

Durant tota la joventut t'he estat buscant sense saber què buscava.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

University of Life. Year One - Advance Adventure Playgrounds. Part One Exam - go to the Third World and survive. No revision, interest, intellect or sensitivity required.

It sounds crazy, but I'm not even scared when I decide to go for it. Frankly, it's the only logical course of action. If you have the chance to uncover a secret and you walk away without looking, there's something wrong with you.

By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.

just as twenty years ago, everyone knew John Colter and Jim Bridger.

Horace Pendergast, originally from Cairo, Illinois.

When I overdo things and take chances, I learn faster.

success for adult learners boils down to just one key factor: adventurousness.