Explorer Quotes
Grapes are grown in such profusion in the Southern and Western States that I have seen damaged bunches thrown to the pigs. Americans find it difficult to understand how highly this fruit is prized in England.
Isabella Bird
Explorer
It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.
Matthew Henson
American explorer
I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.
Ben Saunders
Explorer
When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.
Enric Sala
Conservationist
Traditional alpinism is to go where the others are not going and to be self-reliant.
Reinhold Messner
Former Member of the European Parliament
I became famous for the fact that I would break many, many limits. People said, 'He does all these crazy things.' But oddly it was a crazy thing only because scientists and climbers said, 'Everest and the 8,000-meter peaks without oxygen - impossible. Messner is becoming sick in his head.'
Reinhold Messner
Former Member of the European Parliament
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
Edmund Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer
The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.
Isabella Bird
Explorer
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
French naval officer
The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and 'devilry' as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization.
Isabella Bird
Explorer
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
Edmund Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer
The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Jeff Rich
English rock drummer
Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art.
Reinhold Messner
Former Member of the European Parliament
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
Edmund Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer
Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and in the moonlight it looked handsome. There is a buttressed river wall, and above it some long flat-roofed buildings, the centre one surmounted by a tiled dome.
Isabella Bird
Explorer
A 30-year-old rock climber is an old man. At 40, one is in the middle of his high-altitude power. At 50, a crosser of deserts is at his best age. But at 60, each of us is out of the game.
Reinhold Messner
Former Member of the European Parliament
If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
French naval officer
Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I.
Harry Johnston
Explorer
We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.
Meriwether Lewis
Former Secretary to the President of the United States
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
Edmund Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer
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