Quotes About Exploration

The only bad ideas are the ones never tried.

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

Childhood is a branch of cartography.

A]dventures befall the unadventuresome as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result -- and have been since at least the time of Odysseus -- of the fatal act of leaving one's home, or trying to return to it again. All adventure happens in that damned and magical space, wherever it may be found or chanced upon, which least resembles one's home.

To reach escape velocity, my grandmother, like any spacefarer, would be obliged to leave almost everything behind her. A moment after he

Accurate prediction of the future, of its technologies and traumas, has always seemed to me to be the least interesting thing about science fiction. The Killer Hook.

It reassured me that, if nothing else in life, at least I'd fulfilled my earliest ambition simply to wander far afield, in spirit if not in space, from the place of my birth.

Anyone who has spent time in the company of small children knows that a crushing boredom can unlock great powers of invention.

adventures befall the unadventuresome as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold.

Bird of Wide Experience I

explorers invariably give their names to the places that haunt or kill them.

A Coyote game of paths and chances.

I guess the basic reason I run is that I think a body, like a brain, should be used, stretched, forced to its limits...I feel sorry for those who will never know the desperate pound of 180 beats per minute, or the golden afterglow of recovery from it. The body, like a flying machine, can be operated with greater enjoyment, poise, and confidence if one has explored its limits.

a tunnel entrance.

I knew, thanks to the notations on the map page, that one side of the triangle—Zzyzx to the airport in Vegas—was 92 miles. That left 236 miles for the remaining two sides. That number could be divided in a variety of ways, putting the missing point of the triangle in a myriad of possible positions on the map. What

hang out on the surf beaches even though I didn't know how to surf.

He took the 101 out to the Valley and then the 405 north to the 118 and west. He got off in Chatsworth and drove into the rocky bluffs at the top corner of the Valley.

Lewis and Clarke. Why hadn't she said

Out of the blue and into the black. That's what he said going on a tunnel mission was. We called it the black echo.

and into Malibu Canyon to the Saddle Peak

Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

The minute we look, we cease being afraid.

The internal psychological pressure to make up a story, to explain the ruins before one's eyes, is powerful indeed.

In the lobby of the visitor center, the glass doors had been shattered, and a cold gray mist blew through the cavernous main hall. A sign that read WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH dangled from one hinge, creaking in the wind.