Exploring the World A Look Into the Lives of Those Who Have Traveled Us
The Great Explorers always seemed to have a way with words, and when it comes to inspirational quotes about exploring, they are pretty hard to beat. The likes of Ernest Shackleton, Scott of the Antarctic, David Livingstone and James Cook had adventures that we can hardly comprehend, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t lots of ways we can still explore today.
The fact that these quotes still resonate today is testament to the fact the human spirit will always seek to cherish exploration, no matter what scale it’s on.
There are lots of modern day quotes we love too, from writers, naturalists and documentary makers so you’ll find those in the second part of the post.
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No matter why you’re here, whether you want a killer caption for Instagram, an inspirational picture or just a quote from one of the legends from the early days of exploration, you’ll find it here!
The first selection will be from the explorers themselves. Those who challenged themselves to do what had not been done before, and explore places unknown.
“It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.”
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“We don’t live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.”
“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.”
“I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.”
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“Human effort is not futile, but man fights against the giant forces of nature in a spirit of humility. One has a sense of dependence on a higher power.”
“Struggle is the father of all things.It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.”
Here are some more quotes from people who weren’t known for exploring new frontiers, but nonetheless had great ways to summarise why we love exploring and pushing the boundaries of what you can achieve.
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“Exploration is a wonderful way to open our eyes to the world, and to truly see that impossible is just a word.”
“We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. [...] There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.”
“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.”
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“Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.”
“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.”
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
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“I travel because I’d rather look back at my life, saying ‘I can’t believe I did that’ instead of ‘if only I had’.”
“There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it’s there. And then there are people like me, who are genuinely curious about the world.”
“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience.”
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“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
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“Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand?”
“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.”
“Exploring is an innate part of being human. We’re all explorers when we’re born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it’s there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that’s experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.”
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