Ransom Riggs Quotes

Some persons were to be sent in search of the river Missouri in order to discover whether it had any communication with the Pacific Ocean …

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest in 1953, when I was 10 years old, I thought, 'Well, that's pretty much it now.' But the idea of travelling and exploring and adventure was very strong.

Books of exploration have always fascinated me, like somebody going up the Amazon for the first time.

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

I'm an explorer.

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.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

I like to run in a new place to help me find my way around.

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire. What greatness had not floated on the ebb of that river into the mystery of an unknown earth!... The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires.

We humans were built for exploration, and we were built to do it together.

As a kid, I always wanted to be an explorer, to go to exotic places and do exotic things.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

I guess we’ll be traveling in uncharted waters.” “That’ll be fun,” Phil said.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

Old men ought to be explorers.

Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn't been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do, to the benefit of us all.