Quotes About Exploration

One book opens another.

The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell.

A story told by the conscious mind has a beginning, a development, and an end, but the same is not true of a dream. Its dimensions in time and space are quite different; to understand it you must examine it from every aspect-just as you may take an unknown object in your hands and turn it over and over until you are familiar with every detail of its shape.

But what a dreary world it would be if the rules were not violated sometimes!

Seek the coldness of the moon and ye shall find the heat of the sun.

Fascination arises when the unconscious has been moved.

Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead.

Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead. It

I had to let myself be carried along by the current, without a notion of where it would lead me.

I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

Na hranicích logiky sice kon?í vÄ›da, ne vÅ¡ak pÃ…â"¢íroda, která vzkvétá i tam, kam jeÅ¡tÄ› žádná teorie nepronikla.

He who would fathom the psyche must not confuse it with consciousness, else he veils from his own sight the object he wishes to explore.

But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

As the mind explores the symbol, it is led to ideas that lie beyond the grasp of reason.

We have, therefore, two kinds of thinking: directed thinking, and dreaming or fantasy-thinking.

The psyche is still a foreign, almost unexplored country of which we have only indirect knowledge; it is mediated by conscious functions that are subject to almost endless possibilities of deception.

But somewhere and at some time there must have been people who sought the truth as I was doing

Theseus who descended into Hades and grew fast to the rocks of the underworld, which is to say that the conscious mind, advancing into the unknown regions of the psyche, is overpowered by the archaic forces of the unconscious.

How did I happen to become an explorer? It did not just happen, for my career has been a steady progress toward a definite goal since I was fifteen years of age." Roald Amundsen

Yellowstone, a place so special and awe-inspiring that after exploring it in 1871, the Hayden Expedition conceived of the original concept of the world's first national park—a set-aside of 2. 2 million acres containing more than ten thousand thermal features, canyons, waterfalls, and wildlife—so no man or corporation could ever own it.

Do you think that the day you stop listening to new music is the day you decide you're on the path to old age? Like you've given up on new stuff and you resign yourself to music you've already heard? Like you're through discovering and all you want to do is rummage through your old things?

And I'll want to ride ahead from time to time to make sure we don't get into a situation where we get rim-rocked." "Rim-rocked?" she asked. "It means riding or climbing up into rocks and boulders but not being able to get back down," he said.

When Cody looked out over the vista of green carpeted saddle slopes with tree-choked river valleys, massive red-veined geological upthrusts that bordered the eastern horizon until they gave up and became mountains, and the vast sprawling tableau of Yellowstone Lake miles ahead and below them, he said, "What big country.