Quotes About Exploration

There may be questions still unanswered, but that means that we need science, not that science is useless [...] There are fish in the sea as yet uncaught, but that does not mean that fishing nets have failed and should be thrown aside.

Why must we look inward, and only inward, as if the world ends where the sky begins?

The past was all around her. She could smell it. It did not feel dead. It felt alive, and as curious about her as she was about it.

Even if it means I have to run off and live in the wild caves with a bag over my head, I still want to know what's going on. I need to know.

Follow that coffeehouse.

I don't want a happy ending. I want more story.

The Childersins were armed with swords and daggers. The Cartographers were armed with nothing but surprise, but really quite a lot of surprise.

It was such a simple thing, but it made Bear feel less trapped. This was his cool, green territory, a domain of damp scents and mysteries. Every time, Makepeace felt her eyes sharpen , until she could see in the dim light as clearly as full day. Today she dug the turf with her fingers, rubbed against a tree and snuffed at the dandelion clocks, breaking them with her nose. She was a little too slow to stop Bear licking a fat beetle off her wrist and eating it.

Right now he was trying to make a whole strange new world feel safe.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.

The Only Thing More Surprising Than the Chance She's Taking...Is Where It's Taking Her!

Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.

Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a bell tower, read a history of Byzantium, stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Madonna dei fusi.' You open, as in childhood, and--for a time--receive this world. There's visceral aspect, too--the huntress who is free. Free to go, free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.

My idea of heaven still is to drive the gravel farm roads of Umbria and Tuscany, very pleasantly lost.

No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world.

La vida es una calle de sentido único.

El amor es una bella flor, pero hay que ir a buscarla al borde de un precipicio.

Wenn alles seinen Sinn verliert, gibt es nur zwei Möglichkeiten: Entweder man geht selbst zugrunde oder man vernichtet die Welt, die einen bis zu diesem Augenblick umgeben hat. Man sprengt sein altes Zuhause und geht auf die Suche nach einem neuen.

Estar perdido es bueno. Si no te pierdes, no te puedes encontrar.

La lista puede ser todo lo larga que tú quieras. De hecho, es bueno que tenga muchos NO, ya que con cada posibilidad que eliminas, estás un poco más cerca de saber lo que sí te gusta.

No esperes en el sofá a que la inspiración te llegue, tienes que ir tú en busca de la inspiración

Te puedes equivocar de camino tantas veces como necesites.

There's a whole world out there, even if I don't understand it.