Quotes About Exploration

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.

Going to the mountains is going home.

John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe [ Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal ]

I have lived. Now there must be others.

Our sense of wonder makes us question the way we've been doing things and encourages us to ask, Is there a better way?

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

I just want to hear something I haven't heard before

Expand your sense of the possible.

Asking questions is the key to understanding.

Student—"any person who studies, investigates, or examines thoughtfully.

scientific discovery requires the boldness of provisional commitment to a point of view, while remaining aware that this may require subsequent modification in the light of further experience.

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

A LATTER DAY NATION "Behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land and a desert." (Jeremiah 50:12 (b) – KJV). It was only about 500 years ago that the new world was discovered by the 'civilized world'. And it's only been about 230 years since our founding fathers declared that we were a separate nation.

the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited above. No other nation has landed on the Moon. Satellites and space stations in orbits around the earth, yes, but no other nation has 'mounted up' or 'ascended' so far into the heavens, except for America, making this identity clue fascinatingly applicable only to one nation. Needless to say, neither Iraq nor any Church has accomplished such a deed.

I wonder if more students would do better in elementary and high school if teachers taught more about individual exploration of subjects and less about sliding smoothly along observational ruts. Exploration is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is fun.

Ordinary exploration begins in the juiciest sort of indecision, in deliberate, then routine fits of absence of mind... Exploring requires the cloak of invisibility bicyclists and walkers take for granted.

Exploration is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is fun.

Because even before I got there, New York had become a symbol of my liberated self, and I knew that it was in a kind of turbulence that that self must attempt to find itself.

I discovered the jungle of Central Park—between the 60s and 70s, on the west side. In the afternoons, Sundays especially, a parade of hunters prowled that area—or they would sit or lie on the grass waiting for that day's contact.

As the Yankee Doodle Dandies climbed into the altiplano (highlands), they sang the popular songs of the day, one of which, "Green Grow the Lilacs Oh," became their signature tune, and forever after they would be known as "greengos.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat