Quotes About Exploration

Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.

But taking wrong trains, encountering unexpected delays, and suffering occasional mechanical breakdowns are inevitable to any journey really worth taking. One learns to get oneself turned around and headed the right way.

What are you reading for?

We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.

to follow Him, we must be willing to follow off the map—to go beyond what we know. To do so successfully we must recognize His presence above all.

it also implies there are ways of the Holy Spirit that are yet to be discovered.

I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.

Two hundred years after Euro-Americans "discovered" it, America's river west begins and ends at pollution.

If an alien landed in the United States on some voyage of exploration, he might well report back to headquarters that we were bipedal devices for combusting fossil fuel.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

If you have someone you think is the one, take them and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all over the world, to places that are hard to reach and hard to get out of. And when you land at JFK and you're still in love with that person, get married.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

America had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.

Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.

they avoid the exploration of evolution, because it reminds us all that humankind may not be that special in nature's scheme. What happens to other species also happens to us.

Science is the way in which we know nature and our place within it.

The great questions of evolution bring out the best in us: our boundless curiosity, and our boundless ability to explore. After all, evolution made us who we are.

The yearning to know about nature and where or how we fit in is deep within all of us.

command structure, they would travel and live in small

Thomas Cole's Daniel Boone Sitting at the Door of His Cabin on the Great Osage Lake, Kentucky

Jefferson makes note of the date on which particular flowers bloom. Once autumn comes, he will record the migratory patterns of birds.4

Whenever you are stuck with a problem, try something new. Do something—just one thing—different. Break the pattern of the problem. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results!

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I couldn't see the upside, I couldn't be bothered, and as soon as I couldn't see the upside in that job I started looking elsewhere.