Quotes About Exploration

In other words, there can be no real identity with our heritage until we know what our heritage really is. It is all hidden in our history, but we are ignorant of that history. We have been floating alone, basking blissfully in the sunny heritage of other peoples!

Our minds must be as ready to move as capital is, to trace its paths and to imagine alternative destinations.

it's perhaps more laudable simply to keep heading out into the world than always tilting to leave one's mark on it.

Thank goodness they are curious! It's a sign of healthy minds. And while it may be obvious, it's our responsibility to educate them to the idea that romancing the unknown is attended by myriad possibilities, too, shepherding them through those heady periods of urge and instinct when they think they can soar, and deliver them, we hope whole, to a place where perspective begins to reign, where they know that the groggy old bear at the zoo will instantly wake the moment you step inside the cage.

Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.

Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.

we had sex in every position i could imagine, and some i couldn't. we had sex in every room in my house, and we had sex outdoors. you told me it was the best you'd ever had.

Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge right down the beaten path.

But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: Let's go!

Through the Unknown, we'll find the New

Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas. It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

We revel in the laxness of the path we take.

I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play, — Fencing with rhymes, which, parrying nimbly, back away; Tripping on words, as on rough paving in the street, Or bumping into verses I long had dreamed to meet.

Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.

Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel in Frankfurt.

I got rid of my place in L.A. I had this beautiful condo in Taluca Lake, but I was like, 'Why am I paying for this when I'm all over?'

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

'Kiss Land' is like a horror movie.

Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.

The Eagle has landed.

There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.