spirit of exploration Quotes

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

We invest far off places with a certain romance... Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game; none of them lasts for ever. Your own life, or your bands, or even your species - might be owed to a restless few, drawn by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands, and new worlds.

I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either external or internal. A westward nation of explorers.

May your first word be adventure and last word love.

I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote down that what they sought was an escape from an old world which dictated their conscience and established their merit based on who their parents.

As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their souls, rapids will be run.

The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.

Some people will always be volunteers to explore, and it is, in my mind, a privilege.

The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.