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Quotes About Exploration

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
~ A. R. Ammons
I lived out in the Koko Head area as a kid, when it was all farms. We would walk over that mountain into Hanauma Bay almost every day.
~ Mazie Hirono
I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.
~ John McAfee
I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.
~ Shakira
If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.
~ Billy Collins
My mom told me that even as a toddler I wasn't afraid of anything. She thought something was wrong with me. I didn't know how to walk or swim, but that didn't stop me from crawling into the ocean and almost drowning over and over again.
~ Julia Fox
My favorite place is whichever sidewalk is beneath my feet because I am just constantly fascinated by walking and looking and learning. If I've already walked a street five times, then the next five times I walk it looking up, and I learn something about the cornices.
~ Danny Meyer
I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
~ Olafur Eliasson
I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
~ Sam Walton
But London is my favourite city as I've walked the streets of the capital so often, I know it really well.
~ Viv Richards
Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents. When I stopped talking, I mean literally I stopped speaking. I took a complete vow of silence.
~ John Francis
The first time I walked onto the set of Neverland, it was like walking into another world. They built the sets extra strong, so we were allowed to play on them when we weren't filming. It was cool!
~ Dante Basco
I didn't have a career plan. But what I did was, whenever there was a door open and a new opportunity, I always looked into it and took a chance and walked through the door.
~ Frances Hesselbein
I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.
~ Scott Weiland
I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
When I go to America, I'm fortunate enough to stay in the nicer areas but the last time I went there - to New York last October, November - I went and explored. I went to the rough areas - to Brooklyn, Harlem, the Bronx; I walked around and you see it first-hand, what life is like out there.
~ Andre Gray
I walked on the Moon. What can't you do?
~ Gene Cernan
Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.
~ Henry Williamson
Once, while exploring Seville Cathedral, I walked into a metal bar and gashed my head.
~ Kris Marshall
I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan.
~ Rory Stewart
I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.
~ Scilla Elworthy
I've never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking.
~ Sean Combs
With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.
~ Satish Kumar
I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.
~ Robin Day