Quotes about Exploration

Leave no stone unturned.

For too long I had existed, not really going anywhere and not standing still. I just lived, always in search of something that seemed just out of my range of vision.

Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.

Whatever worth while comes to you, won't be through the channels you were searching last year.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling interests, that the Pacific Coast and, indeed, the whole of our territory west of the Rocky Mountains, should speedily be filled up by a hardy and patriotic population.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.

As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

If a door is shut, go up and wiggle it a little - don't assume it's locked.

Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.