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Exploration Quotes
"Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit."
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"They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds."
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"I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April."
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"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."
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"The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water."
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"I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation."
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"Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long."
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"Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place."
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"What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it."
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"I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move."
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"It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking."
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"Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England."
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"I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion."
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"They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises."
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"Having a fishing rod in your hand is merely an excuse to explore out-of-sight depths and reveal mysteries that previously only existed in dreams."
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"Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it."
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"One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous."
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"We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm."
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"We took a straight course up the great snow ridge."
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"We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri."
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"My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead."
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"When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains."
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"On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length."
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"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."
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"In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy."
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"A little piece of everywhere I go becomes a big part of everything I do."
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"Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations."
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"As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration."
9
"We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset."
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"The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool."
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"Wandering is not limited to geography. Also an altered state of consciousness, it allows a disembodied self to drift on currents of collective awareness with minimal attachment to the physical world. This state of wander tapped imaginative faculties that opened me to a freedom of being only previously experienced through travel."
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"Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I."
9
"The thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter of getting lost. The word "lost" comes from the Old Norse los, meaning the disbanding of an army, and this origin suggests soldiers falling out of formation to go home, a truce with the wide world. I worry now that many people never disband their armies, never go beyond what they know."
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"Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire...They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear."
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"Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety."
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"Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating."
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"I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire."
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"We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season."
8
"Light-years away, another starship was also experiencing problems, though perhaps not as severe. The I.S.S. Antares was not a new ship either. Many older ships in the imperial space fleet reaching retirement age were being refitted with more modern equipment to extend their useful lives. Thus, technologically at least, Antares was currently one of the most advanced ships of the Imperial Space Fleet. Unfortunately, she was now also one of the most troubled. This is what the Phoenix refitting program had done to the Antares."
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"Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved."
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"We will know which stars to visit. Our descendants will then skim the light years, the children of Thales and Aristarchus, Leonardo and Einstein."
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"I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable."
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"Sometimes it's best to stop searching for your passion. Instead, follow your curiosity and see where it leads."
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"I like paths that lead nowhere, that leave you wondering where you are."
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"One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye."
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"In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school."
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"I therefore named this isolated and remarkable feature Swan Hill."
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"Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America."
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