Quotes About Exploration

You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done, even if it's weird.

I love Ginny's expedition!

The cast of Hamlet had not moved much. They had that haunted yet hopeful look in their eyes, like the ones you see in photographs of people crammed into steerage compartments, traveling to some new, unknown land.

Periodically someone would encourage her to walk through the woods or try out the mountain bike. Stevie viewed these offers with grave suspicion and declined.

The thing about looking just a little bit means it's really easy to look a little bit more.

It's true. All the money, all the power - none of it compares to a good book. A book gives you everything. It gives you a window into other souls, other worlds. The world is a door. Books are the key.

The more I looked, the more Christmasy it got.

I kind of love it," Nate said, looking around. "It looks like the moisture farm that Luke Skywalker lives on.

Stevie swept her light around, steering it away from a terrifying crack in the side, and then aimed it squarely forward. I'm going to the end, she said. Seriously? Nate said. This is what I came here for. My dragons are down there. Stevie, I wouldn't ... You're not me, Stevie said. If I die, avenge me. She was joking, but not totally. She had to go, and it also felt like a possible mistake. Some mistakes you have to make.

Gators are just something you have to accept where I come from. Most don't go anywhere near the houses, even though there are lots of delicious children and dogs there. Every once in a while, though, an alligator has a lightbulb moment and decides to take a stroll and see the world a bit.

No one gets Paris after one visit. No one.

The spaces were wide and wild. And for the first time since this started, she felt a real sense of the danger here.

Falling down a hole is easy. Everyone should try it. You just let the ground go away and allow gravity to do its thing.

The sweatpants and long-sleeved shirt has an ominous ring to Stevie, hinting at activities in wild places where protection would be needed, or maybe at night to go raccoon-poking

What Columbus felt when he landed in America, what the astronauts felt when they landed on the moon, is what a child feels when he discovers the earth, between the ages of two and seven.

It has been a day of wonder, this, our first day in the forest.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them. We

So much is still to be learned! So long a road lies before us, and what care we if we must travel it alone!

Instead of building new furnaces, thought Rearden, he was now running a losing race to keep the old ones going; instead of starting new ventures, new research, new experiments in the use of Rearden Metal, he was spending the whole of his energy on a quest for sources of iron ore: like the men at the dawn of the Iron Age—he thought—but with less hope.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

When I look at the ocean, I feel the greatness of man. I think of man's magnificent capacity that created this ship to conquer all that senseless space. When I look at mountain peaks, I think of tunnels and dynamite. When I look at the planets, I think of airplanes.

Imagination and the journey-quest is at the heart of every life well-lived

Einstein was articulate and well-read, a lover of classical music, and it was he who said, I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world