Quotes About Exploration

ambivalence, it turns out, is an unavoidable companion in the search for a new dharma):

Know your own bone: gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

In his late teens, and probably as a result of Neefe's coaching, Beethoven began to read widely and voraciously. This is when he began to frame his life as a quest to

As you walk through forests or the meadows of your mind, Stop and talk to those you fear Good friendships you may find

As you lay on a summer's day In a cool and shady place, Don't look up into the skies; Instead look down and squint your eyes. Squint your eyes so very tight, And if you wish with all your might, You'll find the land of More-Than-Small. In this land live buggs -- that's all!

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

Often we... expect and want every day to be just like today. Even though we're not satisfied with today, we settle for security instead of discovery.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

centering is what will allow you to let go of the need for your ego-intellect to control and explain everything. Centering

When there are no more frontiers you make your own

What "Terra Nova" means, all the articles are proud to reveal, is "New World." What one of the incoming residents said, kind of famously, was that when there are no more frontiers, you have to make them yourself, don't you?

And as he quite rightly went on to say . . . For man has closed himself up, till he sees thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

I was never able to find it in the analysis of chemicals or in degree programs or in any of my schools. But sometimes I find it in the soft flutter of butterflies, in the wildness of plants growing undomesticated in a forest clearing, in the laughter and running of young children, their hair flowing in the wind, and sometimes, sometimes I find it in the words of teachers who come among us from time to time—out there, far outside these walls, in the wildness of the world.

for others gating remains very open, especially among young children, artists, schizophrenics, specialists of the sacred such as shamans and Buddhist masters, and those ingesting psychotropics.

If the human race is to continue for another million years, we will have to boldly go where no one has gone before

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.

We have only to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

Bozeman, Montana