Quotes About Exploration

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

The journey, not the destination, was all that mattered. The sense of freedom, never mind that it was false, that always comes with motion.

What makes you ask that?" (...) "Why does anyone ask a question? Because I want to know the answer.

There can be no better place to begin your exploration of the world than by stepping our your own back door.

I didn't yet perceive the way everything that happens is connected-didn't realize that opening a door that led to outside exploration would inevitably open a door to the unexplored places inside myself.

It felt like betrayal, but in truth it was simply Muhammed Bruce's lament for the passing of an era. A time when Europeans had roamed the earth in pursuit of adventure, largely oblivious to the lives and laws of the people in the countries they picked through like cherries. Spitting out the pits. Just like my parents. They had stomped on the world like the Burtons of their era, only worse somehow because they did not think that their shoes left marks.

Le Verrier —without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky—had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

I don't know, I'm making this up as I go.

People only go to the places they have visited first in their minds," she says, uttering the phrase as if secrets to the universe have just been shared. "Perhaps that is how learning can help you. However, first you must see it, feel it, and then believe it. When you do, where it takes you may surprise.

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside- and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment....'They knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.' p. 90

Children are never too young to begin the study of nature's book, and never too old to quit. ~Laura Hecox

If it was not a good idea, it was at least an interesting one.

Launching and landing the boats, often chest-deep in water amid the heavy underbrush that lined the riverbank, the men were constantly vulnerable to the predatory fish, waterborne snakes, and other creatures they were disturbing. Even

Like others at the time, Burton and Speke were unapologetic in their racism, with all of its attendant arrogance and ignorance, but they were sickened by the slave trade, which, Burton wrote, "had made a howling desert of the land," and took great pride in their country's efforts to end it.

The world is a great book, of which those who never leave home read but a page.

The ordinary traveler, who never goes off the beaten route and who on this beaten route is carried by others, without himself doing anything or risking anything, does not need to show much more initiative and intelligence than an express package," Roosevelt sneered.

There is a universal saying to the effect that it is when men are off in the wilds that they show themselves as they really are

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

Now you two spindly Earthmen are going to have the best meal of your lives! Broiled dinosaur on real Venusian black bread!

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

We are the great danger. Psyche is the great danger. How important is to know something about it, but we know nothing about it.