Quotes About Exploration

I am looking for the door to another world. I've waited thousands of years. Take me.

But a spontaneous traveler inevitably will end up with the tummy gauge suddenly on empty, in some place where cuisine is not really the point: a museum cafeteria, or late-night snack bar across from the concert hall. Eating establishments where cuisine isn't the point—is that a strange notion?

was after they discovered the world was round. I'm not scared of big words." "I didn't say you were." "You did, too! 'I realize you're no scientist, Miss Rawley

Religion has no place in the science classroom, where it may abridge students' opportunities to learn the methods, discoveries, and explanatory hypotheses of science. Rather, its place is in the hearts of the men and women who study and then practice scientific exploration. Ethics can't influence the outcome of an experiment, but they can serve as a useful adjunct to the questions that get asked in the first place, and to the applications thereafter.

No, you shouldn't. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world than no and yes.

This is darkest Africa, where life roars by you like a flood and you grab whatever looks like it will hold you up.

Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways.

How strange that a boy could make a kite of his pants, fly them around the world, and somehow arrive back at the house where everything began.

I went on foot because I still had feet to carry me.

There he'd found the pasteboard notebook: the most beautiful book ever, it could become anything.

She seemed like a person born to have sidewalks under her feet.

My first question: Is Knoxville near the ocean. Answer: Wrong direction.

Five days and the train has passed through many underworlds.

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

Well, my stars, the thing was like the Bible—look hard enough in its pages, and you'll find what you seek. Love your neighbor, or slay him with the jawbone of an ass.

She'll follow the river south through Lake Havasu City, where some rich person, she has heard, actually bought the London Bridge and shipped it over block by block to stand lonely in the desert.

If you do not fill your energetic field with new experiences, new ideas, and new versions of yourself, your field becomes dim and worn, bored with the same old story.

kindergarten

where?" he asked. "TO THE

skipped the rest of the way to Room Nine.

That's where

If you want to get something you never had before, you have to do something you've never done before.

perambulations

That night I took a long, wandering walk through Tokyo. I was restless and felt the need to move, to let the city's currents carry me where they would.