Quotes About Exploration

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

Somebody asked me if I was looking for something. I am looking for everything.

Somebody asked me if I am looking for something. I am looking for everything

Everyone scoffs at a pioneer. Did you ever stop to consider the person who first discovered milk? It took a lot of nerve to be the first man to pull on a cow's nipple and drink whatever came out. You can bet his friends never let him live that down. And yet, a million years later, nobody thinks anything of drinking cow juice.

You must enter the Forest Adventurous at its darkest point, where there is no path. Where there's a path, it is someone else's path. Each human being is a unique phenomenon. The idea is to find your own pathway to bliss.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

Summer's ending and the closest thing I've had to an adventure was a Google search of Baja California.

People can make beautiful mistakes, dear, and each one is an arrow, a brilliant arrow, pointing out the right way to there.

NASA sent up two satellites in '77, and on board both they packed golden records in case the satellite should ever encounter someone who might want to listen.

No way in, go in, measure.

There are some things which it is madness not to try to know but which it is almost as much madness to try to know.

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.  

America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

In human affairs there is no snug harbor, no rest short of the grave. We are forever setting forth afresh across new and stormy seas, or into outer space.

The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally.

Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean... [John Muir to Samuel Hall Young]

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

As the Spanish proverb says, "He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.