Quotes About Exploration

including wagons, camp equipage, arms, ammunition, donkeys, buffaloes,

In every moment, we're sailing on oceans where wonders are not just the exception; they are the rule.

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

If you can touch your shadow—within form—and do something out of your ordinary pattern, a great deal of energy will flow from it.

Mystery is the unknown in which we live. It is our nature. Mystification is the exploitation of mystery.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.

Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

I headed straight into the setting sun, and rode west at an easy pace. It was going to be a long ride, and there was no reason to hurry.

Watch that lad going down the street, his eyes are looking far out. Is his vision across the prairie or over the grey-backed seas? At any rate, it isn't here. Don't I know it!

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

Fingerprints of the Gods

People who travel only in their arm-chairs acquire notions of foreign places which reality usually upsets at the first glance.

There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods.

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse below and dreams of home.

Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.

Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.