Quotes about Exploration
We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
- Henri Matisse
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
We can never have enough of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
- Henry David Thoreau
Progress through cautious, well founded experiments.
- Henry Ford
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don't know.
- Leonard Sweet
The imagination is the only part of us that cannot be shackled. It is the irreducible essence of who we are, and it is that which allows us to see into our future. Einstein said, "The imagination is the preview of what is to come.
- Les Brown
A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.
- Max Lucado
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Domesticated males aren't much use for adventure.
- Jim Elliot