Quotes About Exploration

That's the thing about digging holes," Quinn said. "There are no assurances you'll find what you want—or want what you find.

Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me.

All these things Alanna knew from her father's books and maps, but the reality took her breath away as a paragraph written in a book never could.

This is what I've come to, he said mournfully. Following little birdies

Locks are for the unimaginative.

Someday I must read this scholar everyone

Thats what Traders do, we find roads and we follow them.

Safety is an illusion and perhaps it's better to challenge it sometimes, to see how far we can go, to learn about the stuff we are made of.

Charter boats are like books with no covers.

You should visit before you pass judgement on a place.

Who could say what went on, at sunrise, in the thick woods below the planet-searching dome of the Observatory, which saw only space and stars?

A fish am I," cried Saffiro, "the earth is my ocean.

Seeking Romulan Montargo here and there, Leopardo had continually not found him.

Fine living is not for you, lads, eh? Well, go out and play in the streets for a while, my honeys.

Shaina began to walk very fast over the mountain side and westwards towards the delicate, gloomily-shining fang of the witch's mountain.

And it now occurred to me that maybe the whole point was, in fact, to lose yourself. But not in the sense of confusion--in the sense of connection to something bigger than yourself...Getting lost to be found.

You see,' Gwyn said slowly...'With an Indian boy maybe you can, you know, explore all that stuff. Go kamasutronic, so to speak.' I nodded, but I was feeling battle fatigue and was now thinking the tip of another thought: Or maybe an Indian boy would get that most of us don't know that stuff. That it was a lot of hype. It was the bindi blondes who were all over this scene, not the holelessly nosed Indian girls.

While it was a truism throughout most of known space that the shortest distance between two points was a straight line, it was equally true as far as the Corps was concerned that the shortest distance between two points had probably been mined.

Joshua trees, he said. This is the only place in the world they live. And they live hundreds of years. The Mormons called them that. They drove out in their wagons to California and suddenly saw all of these and said they looked like Joshua, his arms up, welcoming them to the Promised Land.

You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free.

Not wonderful that you've forgotten, mind you. Wonderful that you have so much to discover.

He plunged beneath the surface and knew that these were Elyon's waters, and his lake had no bottom.

He felt like he was looking at a whole new world. Not only was he a new person, drowned in magic, but the thousands he faced were different.

When I came to consciousness my whole interest was in wild animals.