Quotes about Exploration

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

What you are doing is exploring. You are undertaking the first experience, not of the place, but of yourself in that place... nobody can discover the world for anybody else. It is only after we have discovered it for ourselves that it becomes a common ground and a common bond, and we cease to be alone.

She seems to give a respectful credence to the statement that "God is loveonly to hurry on to explore with real interest the possibility that God is wrath." She can read from the book of Revelation with a ringing conviction in her voice that can make the creation seem only a stage setting for the triumphant thunderation of end.

The woods is old enough to be fairly free of undergrowth. I go along slowly, watching for whatever may present itself.

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

He's crossed all the oceans all around the world.

Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

You cannot swim for new horizons unless you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.

Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.

No matter how deep we have gone, there is more.