Ken Kesey Quotes

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

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

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

America is now a space-faring nation ... a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered the New World.

It is but just and reasonable, that since you expose yourself to such danger to serve us, you should be rewarded for it. And we being willing to honor and favor you for the reasons aforesaid; Our will is, That you, Christopher Columbus, after discovering and conquering the said Islands and Continent in the said ocean, or any of them, shall be our Admiral of the said Islands and Continent you shall so discover and conquer; and that you be our Admiral, Vice-Roy, and Governor in them.

If Columbus had an advisory committee, he would probably still be at the dock.

Since the discovery of Columbus, there has been no event of equal importance to the human race.

America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

I feel like an old-fashioned mountain climber when I am making discoveries, seeing something for the first time, realizing that no human before me has ever seen what I am seeing. It takes your breath away - for just a moment, you feel a pause in time, as you know you are crossing a boundary into a new realm of knowledge.

Space is big. The whole point of the frontier is that we go there to do new things in new places - not one place, and not one thing, but all of the above.

To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness.

We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die