Quotes About Exploration

When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.

For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe, its controversial, it takes you into deep areas, it's a journey, its starts off in safe areas but it gets into deep waters.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.

Time spent on reconnaissance is seldom wasted.

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

Every door I pass is one way. So I may as well look around, and see what there is beyond the next door, and the next.

Wow. Pioneers with ice-cream." Joshua felt motivated to defend his home. "Well, it doesn't have to be like the Donner Party, Sally-

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville.

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

There is a class of tourists who never seem to see the things they're visiting, I thought. They prefer to look at directions to the next place they're not going to look at.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.

Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, "The Colbert Report," November 3, 2005

All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.

Flight is romance—not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

Guys that set off to hike around the world are a dime a dozen in California. Every day in this state women tell divorce judges, "He walked to the corner convenience store for a pack of cigarettes and decided to keep going, all the way around the world, and here is the postcard he sent to let me know.

We only know who we are by trying on various versions of ourselves.

T. S. Eliot said it: "Old men ought to be explorers.")