Quotes About Exploration

France is Europe's most diverse, tasty, and exciting country to explore. It's a cultural bouillabaisse that surprises travelers with its varied, complex flavors.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

Some Neanderthal had the magical idea of blowing through a reed ... to entertain the children one night in a cave somewhere. Then, in a blink of an eye ... civilization.

To make it not be the last day, I'd search for every single possibility. (Translated)

Madame X set up a piano in the Alps.

The Americans today who like to whine all the time because they say that taxes are too high and that government costs too much should leave their television sets behind for a while and go out and see the country they live in.

And why did I think that the notorious and often fatal obstacles that the pioneers faced—mountain passes strewn with lava rock, hellacious winds and dust storms, rattlesnakes, and descents so steep that the wagons could only be lowered by ropes—would miraculously vanish from the trail for me?

I was comfortable about my own western quest. The wrong outcome, or no outcome at all, is often the only result of a journey. Walkabouts and odysseys have always been common, and we needn't search too hard for tangible returns. Journey for journey's sake is enough. For weeks or months of a climb or a trek, we are forced to be in the moment.

Uncertainty was a sacrament and the quest for miles meant that we'd never know where or how we'd end the day.

Platte River Road Narratives

The original Pikers from Kentucky and Missouri, in the words of pioneer diarist William Audley Maxwell, were considered "of a 'backwoods' class,

I had never realized before just how tiring and dehydrating long exposure to the wind can be, but this made me feel closer to nature.

This became our creed, almost a religious faith. Nobody knows and we would have to figure everything out ourselves

The 1836 Whitman-Spalding covered wagon train was the first to go beyond the Rockies and complete the Oregon Trail.

It was July 4, 1836. The first white women had crossed the Rockies on Independence Day.

Now I knew a little bit more about how the pioneers felt as they embarked for the West. It was my jumping-off time and I was getting jacked around by the outfitters. •

Even more beautiful than the land that we passed, or the months spent camping on the plains, was learning to live with uncertainty.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

The First Book Open it. Go ahead, it won't bite. Well. . . maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world-- just the world as you think you know it.