Quotes about Exploration
I have lived a thousand lives already. Every day I unbury--I dig up. I find relics of myself in the sand that women made thousands of years ago...
— Virginia Woolf
An English man does not travel to see English men.
— Laurence Sterne
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!
— Laurence Sterne
It would seem as if there never was a book written, or a story told, expressly with the object of keeping boys on shore, which did not lure and charm them to the ocean, as a matter of course.
— Charles Dickens
I have an affection for the road ... formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope.
— Charles Dickens
Yes. I'm going to take a holiday. More than that; I'm going to take a walk. More than that; I'm going to ask you to take a walk with me.
— Charles Dickens
The large rooms are too cramped and close. She cannot endure their restraint, and will walk alone in a neighbouring garden.
— Charles Dickens
There are not many places that I find it more agreeable to revisit, when I am in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never been.
— Charles Dickens
Give me a field where the unmowed grass grows...
— Walt Whitman
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
— Mark Twain
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Become a tourist for a day in your own hometown. Take a tour. See the sights.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.