Exploring is defined as the act of searching for things in pursuit of discovery. In that sense, we are all explorers in life. We venture into the unknown without knowing what lies ahead in our lives. We explore with our religion, our education, our drugs, our career, and even with our sexuality. In the earlier days of humanity, people would venture into the unknown for such of food. Nowadays, we as humans venture into foreign lands in pursuit of a better life. The developed world is flooded with migrants from other, less developing nations that flock to the advanced world in the search for a better lifestyle and the freedom that these countries offer.
We are also explorers who are constantly looking for new ways to change and reinvent ourselves, for better or for worse. We venture into the unknown, in places that test our mentality and far from our comfort zones. By being true explorers, we can find our true selves, one that is not shackled to the chains of societies. Trying new things helps us to grow as human beings, and if we stop being explorers, then life will indeed become a boring and monotonous routine that will lead us to nowhere.
- “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.” – T. S. Eliot
- “Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let’s all go exploring.” – Edith Widder
- “I’m the type of person who far prefers a vacation filled with trips to museums and art galleries, shopping and exploring vintage flea markets, people-watching at cafes, and discovering delicious restaurants as opposed to lounging on a beach for days on end.” – Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
- “All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.” – David Suzuki
- “Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.” – Brian Greene
- “My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.” – Blythe Danner
- “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” – Judith Thurman
- “I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.” – Ireland Baldwin
- “Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.” – Freeman Dyson
- “I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see the singer being real, and exploring, and not doing a rehearsed routine, so I’m just constantly looking for new things to try. I’m really curious out there, and my curiosity has led me into all kinds of bizarre situations.” – Rivers Cuomo
- “I can sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it’s a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.” – Idina Menzel
- “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.” – Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
- “We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
- “Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.” – Walter Savage Landor, Pericles and Aspasia
- “Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least.” – Santosh Kalwar
- “What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.” – Roman Payne, The Wanderess
- “The best traveler is one without a camera.” – Kamand Kojouri
- “I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.”– John Green, Paper Towns
- “It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.” – Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
- “You need mountains, long staircases don’t make good hikers.” – Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.” – Richard Halliburton
- “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.” – Mark Twain
- “If we were meant to stay in one place we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin
- “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.” – Edith Widder
- “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?” – Richard Aldington
- “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste it, to experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.” – China Mieville
- “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.” – S. Eliot
- “Exploration, of course, is going to new places, but I don’t think we go to new places just solely to say: well, we’ve been there, and come back, interesting though it may be. To me, each time we go farther into space we should use that to do basic research basic research that can’t be done before you go there.” – John Glenn
