Quotes About Exploration

I turned on the flashlight; it cut a small circle of light from the darkness around me.

La curiosità è insubordinazione allo stato puro.

La curiosité, disait-elle, est la forme la plus pure de l'insoumission.

The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don't want to know, what you don't want to find out. But something forces you anyway.

As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don't settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

That one trip gave me a glimpse of the dizzying freedom of the open road, how vast America was, and how full of wonder.

Why revere the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?

Just now and then, maybe every few weeks and then only for minutes at a time, a breach appeared in the partition and I walked on through, because I have always taken that as a general rule of life: If a door opens, walk on through and at least take a look around.

Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming something else, or someone else.

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

He needs to go rub his soul against life.

How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.

But still, I'd be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I was going to be one of those Americans who traversed Italy with my forehead knit in concentration, divining wordsw from their Latin roots and answering by wedging French cognates into Italian pronunciations spliced onto a standard Spanish verb conjugation.

Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.

She would just be catching up when I'd go again, swimming farther out into life because I still hadn't found a rock to stand on.

I'm too fascinated to hide indoors or stay cooped up in our yard. Curiosity killed the cat, I know, but I try to land on my feet.

Every family's its own trip to China.

Take one trip overland here and you'll know forever that a road in the jungle is a sweet, flat, impossible dream.

I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.

In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled and examined the pink-skinned baby birds, he popped one of them into his mouth like a jujube. It seemed to please him a lot. He offered a baby bird to me, pantomiming that I should eat it. I understood perfectly well what he meant, but I refused. He did not seem disappointed to have to eat the whole brood himself.

My thoughts kept straying onto random paths...hoping to get lost in a thicket.