Lucy Larcom Quotes

Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.

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.

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.

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

Men should be explorers no matter how old they are.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

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.

I hope that you, too, will choose to have a journey instead of just a life. Actually, I hope it's a full on expedition.

Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need

It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.

I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.

Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered.

There's such a huge world out there; I haven't even begun to scratch the surface.

From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.

I like looking for things on tour.