Quotes About Discovery

I who never knew what it was the broom tree meant now wonder to find the road to Sonohara led me so far from my way.

There were legions of her kind during the nineteen-thirties, women from the age of thirty and upward, who crowded into their war-bereaved spinsterhood with voyages of discovery into new ideas and energetic practices in art and social welfare, education or religion.

Remember always that what you are seeking is also seeking you.

THE SECOND TEACHING OF ST. FRANCIS IS that we find God when we become poor enough for God to find us.

OPERATION: OUTER SPACE

There was a time when "man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent," this New World, "commensurate to his capacity for wonder." I would strive with all my strength to give that sense of wonder to those who will come after me.

The secret of successful education is finding out how a particular person learns.

Nancy Farmer

She replied, "When you find a bike1 in a birk,2 busk3 there the bauk4.

Piedra Pulida Un nuevo libro, un nuevo día, otra nueva ciudad, más veranos, más flores, aquel perpetuo mar y yo, ahora, sobre piedra pulida, busco tus labios, busco tus ojos.

Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.

I can relate to the novelist Carrie Brown...who described herself as being 'a promiscuous reader.' I'll give almost any book a chance to have its way with me.

Girl discovers reading, then discovers life.

Wild Life by Molly Gloss Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide by Robert Michael Pyle

When Jonas Salk, a scientist at the University of Pittsburgh, found it and developed the first polio vaccine in 1952, he did not patent the lifesaving treatment. There is no patent, Salk told the broadcaster Edward R. Murrow: Could you patent the sun?

Most of these scientists were just quietly doing their work measuring ice cores, running global climate models, and studying ocean acidification, only to discover that they were unwittingly destabilizing the political and social order.

And the real surprise, for all involved, is that we are so much more than we have been told we are - that we long for more and in that longing have more company than we ever imagined.

A Prayer for Daily Insight Open my eyes, God. Help me to perceive what I have ignored, to uncover what I have forgotten, to find what I have been searching for. Remind me that I don't have to journey far to discover something new, for miracles surround me, blessings and holiness abound. And You are near. Amen.

It is quite uninteresting; that is why one comes out. — Temeraire, on being inside an egg

But none of that matters at all." His head raised to stare balefully at me, but I said, incoherent yet convinced, "It's just—a way to go. There isn't only one way to go." I waved at his notes. "You're trying to find a road where there isn't one. It's like—it's gleaning in the woods," I said abruptly. "You have to pick your way through the thickets and the trees, and it's different every time.

How far would we have to go to run from winter?

CUIDADO CON SU MASCOTA SECRETA».

Now come on. Let's find the baby unicorns and get out of here.

It's like—it's gleaning in the woods. . . You have to pick your way through the thickets and the trees, and it's different every time.