Quotes About Exploration

Somewhere to the eastward a wolf howled; lightly, questioningly. I knew the voice, for I had heard it many times before. It was George, sounding the wasteland for an echo from the missing members of his family. But for me it was a voice which spoke of the lost world which once was ours before we chose the alien role; a world which I had glimpsed and almost entered...only to be excluded, at the end, by my own self.

There was no other wanderer on that road, yet I was not alone, for his tracks went with me, each pawprint as familiar as the print of my own hand. I followed them, and I knew each thing that he had done, each move that he had made, each thought that had been his; for so it is with two who live one life together.

Jamie was quick to see a use for the ice sheet.

I love the ability to let my mind explore whatever it wants. When you write it down, it has to be informed and make sense. But if you have an imagination, you can go everywhere. I love that--the inception--having a germ of an idea and building upon it. You can do whatever you want with it. Many writers would say you can play God.

Jung acompanha-nos à porta do incognoscível e deixa que vejamos e comprendamos por nós próprios.

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.

I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying. For as long as you foster a willingness to learn, you will ward off sclerosis of the brain and hardening of the mental arteries. Curiosity has led many a man and women into the valley of serious wealth.

Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending... no first beginning.

For travel is a stimulus to the imagination, and imagination is the very path to love.

A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

Deitãose fóra das ilhas de Angitur, seguem por mar que até então Portuguezes nunca tinhão visto nem navegado.

sómente direi que em duas noites que aqui estivemos surtos, nos não davamos por seguros dos lagartos, baldas, peixes e serpentes que de dia tinhamos visto, porque erão tantos os uivos, os assopros c os roncos, e na praia os rinchos dos cavaltos marinhos, que eu me não atrevo a podêl-o declarar com palavras.

por este rio acima,

Vinde, christãos do cabo do mundo, com esta vossa verdadeira irmã na fé de Christo, e quiçá que parenta de algum de vós outros por parte do pai que me gerou n'este desterro.

Semper versans, semper in motu. (mereu ratacind, mereu in miscare)

Most educated people rightly refused to abandon the traditional estimates of the size of the globe. They could not, therefore, concede that Columbus could possibly have reached Asia, as he still claimed and continued to do until his dying day.

What's left for culinary innovation? We keep going. The vanguard isn't over.

If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit.... What are the limits?

Outside a new dark was falling, a dark Charlie didn't know yet. He walked carefully, wheeling the bike. Like everything else here, the street lamps had bigger kingdoms and the pools of shadow between them fell wider and deeper than he was used. to.