Quotes by Women Explorers

Isabelle Eberhardt

Mary Kingsley

Alexandra David-Néel

Isabella Bird

Calamity Jane

Louise Arner Boyd

One must never look for happiness. One meets it by the way — but it is always going in the opposite direction.

Isabelle Eberhardt

I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of those flower-stands full of ferns and plants - the sort you come across in drawing rooms at home, with wire-work legs. I do not mean that Mondoleh has wire-work legs under water, but it looks as if it might have.

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

Alexandra David-Néel

It is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.

In the Reggio Emilia preschools, however, each child is viewed as infinitely capable, creative, and intelligent. The job of the teacher is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways so that they develop fully.

Louise Arner Boyd