Quotes About Exploration

They tumbled out of the van, eager to explore the docks. There were brown pelicans and sea lions, anemones and barnacles clinging to the planks and pilings, and silver flashes of schooling minnows in the shallows.

Through this. Through to where? Where did you end up when you got through something? What happened at the end of through? Was it a destination? Or another open door? An escape hatch?

What kind of books do you like?" "The kind of books that make me forget my own life for a while.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." —Helen Keller

She read books that took her to faraway places. Books that let her live a different life. Books that made her see the world with new eyes.

apartment? There was so much she didn't know, so much she wanted to learn but wouldn't let herself

A book, too, can be a star . . . a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good. The statement was attributed to Theodore Seuss Geisel—better known as Dr. Seuss.

She even learnt the language of a strange country which Senior Cosetti had been told some people believed still existed, although no-one in the world could say where it was. The name of this country was Wales.

O, wherever men of my sort used to go, long ago. Wandering on paths that other men have not seen. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.

but as a scientist and an explorer I have a duty to bear witness to the Splendours of the World.

Abandoning the search for the Knowledge would free us to pursue a new sort of science. We could follow any path that the data suggested to us.

Mr. Honeyfoot did not propose going quite so far --indeed he did not wish to go far at all because it was winter and the roads where very shocking.

In all these places I have stood in Doorways and looked ahead.

Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite.

The nearest inhabited village is about seven of your English miles to the left.

Those who wander are not necessarily lost.

me, my Rebbe was the geologist of the soul. You see, there are so many treasures in the earth. There is gold, there is silver, and there are diamonds. But if you don't know where to dig, you'll only find dirt and rocks and mud. The Rebbe can tell you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do yourself.

My Great-Grandma G, an avid reader, always said "a good book can take you anywhere you want to go". No need for passports, spending money, or travel insurance. Where are you off to next?

He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands, and continents. He had made guessing games of it and discovered hidden objects; faces, birds, and fishes. He made mathematical calculations of it and rediscovered his childhood; theorems, angles, and triangles. There was practically nothing else he could do but look at it. He hated the sight of it.

One day I will become an astronaut and play mini golf on the sun. Goodbye papa, goodbye mama. I must continue to be the first little Italian boy in space

Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

The Jet Set Way"

Travel had taught me that the world was something to engage with, not take shelter from.