Quotes About Exploration

All I wanted was to put myself to sleep in towns I didn't know.

I sometimes wish I could go off in search of something," he declared, "but before getting even that far, I myself wouldn't have the slightest idea what to search for. Now my father, he's someone who's been searching for something all his life. He's still searching today. Ever since I was a little boy, my father's told me about the white sheep that came to him in his dreams. So I always thought that's what life is like. An ongoing search.

He had no place he had to go to, no place to come back to. He never did, and he didn't now. The only place for him was where he was now.

All I know is I'm totally alone. All alone i n an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don't know, and I give up thinking about it.

We don't find out what's waiting for us around the next corner until we turn it.

Gradually, I was getting worn down. My sense of direction had evaporated by our fourth day. When south became the opposite of east, I bought a compass, but going around with a compass only made the city seem less and less real. The buildings began to look like backdrops in a photography studio, the people walking in the streets like cardboard cutouts.

He had that feeling he remembered from childhood when he opened a new textbook at the beginning of the term, ignorant of its contents but sensing the new knowledge to come.

That sounds good. But I don't like to be tied down in one place. I want to be free-to go to where I want, when I want, and be able to think about whatever I want.

All I wanted was to put myself to sleep in towns I didn't know.

Writing a novel is like having a dream.

The world was a vast ocean with no landmarks, Kino a little boat that had lost its chart and its anchor.

He had no itch to dig for glories Deep in the dirt that time has laid.

Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it's not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. It's not so important where it leads. that's why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story.

New ventures are undertaken with a high ratio of assumption to knowledge.

One can lead with no more than a question in hand.

Mooreland is a long way to go to not to be anywhere when you get there.

Since we were only going to the best place on the Earth, where every single minute of every day was different and filled with promise, what the heck difference did it make what we were gonna do

They named you Taos because that's where they went on their honeymoon, and there was something in it, something beyond the sentimental or nostalgic, they were trying to say: once we went so far. And you were how far they went. There is no more distant star, I now believe.

No puedo quedarme sentado en mi escritorio. Las ideas vienen de lo inesperado.

No, you can just paint me walking into shadows.

There's an old saying, 'Look not into the heart of the Ohmu.' They say if you do, you'll never come back...

Las historias, llevadas a término, son exploraciones de los límites de la legitimidad.

las historias, llevadas a término, son exploraciones de los limites de la legitimidad.

they are, as a country, starving? It's yet another paradox, which is, we argue, a kind of treasure map. When you see a paradox, keep digging.