Explorers Quotes - Page 4

• I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a dare devil...I'm an explorer.

  Evel Knievel

  Men, Devil, Dare

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• Why would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food?

  Jon Stewart

  Use, Spices

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• He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.

  Michael Harner

  Inspirational, Life, Self

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• An artist is an explorer.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.162, Univ of California Press

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• We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon the line of history; it does not drift upon the winds of story, or float upon the shrouds of myth. We are still explorers and discoverers, seeking meaning through movement and examination. But we are coming to a time of listening. Our sweat and breath are now upon this land. Voices rise up, and we begin to hear the echoes in the stones.

  Kent Nerburn

  Years, Wind, Land

  Kent Nerburn (1996). “A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land”

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• As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.

  Nainoa Thompson

  Ocean, Who I Am, Culture

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• I came up with the "We are explorers," with sort of a counter-melody to [Opetaia Foa'i] melody. And so, it happened so organically, that it really, to me, is the most emblematic of our collaboration.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Collaboration, Melody, Happened

  Source: deadline.com

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• In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.

  Gregory Bateson

  Cases, Knows, Has Beens

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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• Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of their wills, life began to express itself in the same hard terms, and the great commerce of a New World bent everything to its indomitable will.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Business, Heart, Fighting

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• And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her

  Meg Cabot

  Kids, Mind, Watches

  Meg Cabot (2016). “Crowning Glory”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Twilight, Honor

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• I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Giving Up, Mean, Eye

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 31, 2012

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• A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.

  Herodotus

  Years, Curiosity, Easier

  Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.co.uk

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• 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.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  America, People, Landscape

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing.

  Terence McKenna

  Sea, Drawing, People

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• I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Careers, Space, Imagination

  "Sir Arthur C. Clarke: 90th Birthday Reflections". Arthur C. Clarke's message delivered on his 90th birthday, www.youtube.com. 2007.

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• Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!

  Paula White

  Retirement, Inspirational Life, Opportunity

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• Men should be explorers no matter how old they are.

  Don Ameche

  Dream, Men, Vision

  "Fictional character: Art Selwyn". "Cocoon", 1985.

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• From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account of its natural history as should give me a niche amongst the scientific explorers of the globe I inhabit, and hand my name down as a useful contributor of original matter.

  Joseph Dalton Hooker

  Country, Writing, Science

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Land, Steps

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.561, Harvard University Press

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• The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not any thirst for knowledge, but simply a yearning for adventure. ... A Polar explorer always talks grandly of sacrificing his fingers and toes to science. It is an amiable pretention, but there is no need to take it seriously.

  H. L. Mencken

  Adventure, Sacrifice, Men

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• The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rain, White, Hunters

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods (Annotated Edition)”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Giving Up, Memories, Reading

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• It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.

  Marcel Proust

  Creativity, Knowledge, Land

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• The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the world of science and invention to a wide degree. Also, there were no "professionals". This was a time when amateur explorers, naturalists and enthusiasts were are still making major contributions to progress.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Progress, Degrees, World

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