Quotes About Exploration

The things said and the things not said. In the space in between, a thousand worlds. A thousand worlds.

God, my children, is the wilderness.

We don't even know where we are. What realm is this? What world lies beyond this forest? Cousin, we have nowhere else to go.' 'Nowhere, and anywhere. In the circumstances, Nimander, the former leads to the latter, like reaching a door everyone believes barred, locked tight, and lo, it opens wide at the touch. Nowhere and anywhere are states of mind.

He strode down the empty street, cleaving the low-lying mists that swirled like incandescent cloaks in the gaslight.

It plagues the young, this need to find reasons for things.

How many times, dear traveller, will you walk the same path?

they make me think of that boy, the way he always got into things he shouldn't have. Wits enough to be curious, not smart enough to be cautious.

Contrivances that require no food or water, that do not tire or grow lame, imagine the freedom of such a world as that would bring, Karsa Orlong." "People would go everywhere. What freedom in a smaller world, witch?

The things said and the things not said. In the space in between, a thousand worlds.

Forest soon replaced the exposed bedrock, slowly shifting from coniferous to deciduous, the hills giving way to flatter ground. The trees then thinned, and suddenly, beyond a line of tangled deadfall, plains stretched before them, and the rain was gone. Onrack raised a hand. 'We shall halt here.

peregrination has been anything but peaceful.

Here be the mountains vanishing in the mists, never to return. Here be the rivers sinking into the sands, and these are the sands that never rest. And the sky that looks down and sees nothing. Here, aye, is the world behind me, for I was never much of a map-maker, never much the surveyor of deeds.

She felt his eyes exploring her like ghost hands.

Hadrian slapped him on the back. "I'm liking you more and more, Buck. A claustrophobic engineer who's entirely devoid of curiosity trapped aboard a spaceship in the midst of eternal darkness

Ask not the hero about heroism Forgive the unwillingness To lock gazes while you search For what cannot be explained

improbabilities is a word few children know, and even if they did, why, they would dismiss the notion with a single hand fluttering overhead as they danced to the horizon. Because it will not do to creep timorously into the future, no, one should leap, sail singing through the air, and who can say where one's feet will finally set down on this solid, unknown land?

One day,' he said, 'we shall walk the Roads to the Abyss. And so witness all the wonders of the universe.

With no expectations anything can become.

Its the actions one produces that will lead them toward the unknown.

Look, I tried to get a paper route instead, but the newspapers keep burning up on reentry.

I checked the warehouse, but he wasn't there, either.

Anywhere, anytime.

I want a chance to be Space Girl, too.

the idea of using infinity to solve difficult geometry problems has to rank as one of the best ideas anyone ever had.