Quotes About Exploration

Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Life is a journey, not a destination.

The gaping unknown

I loved wandering around the bookshelves, scanning the spines until something happened to catch my eye. Those visits were dreamy, frictionless interludes that promised I would leave richer than I arrived. It wasn't like going to a store with my mom, which guaranteed a tug-of-war between what I wanted and what my mother was willing to buy me; in the library I could have anything I wanted.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

people hack into the library to rehearse hacking into bigger, more secure, and more valuable targets.

You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?

In 1925, a man named Harry Pidgeon completed a solo sailing trip around the world, becoming only the second person ever to do so. He had gotten the building plans for his boat and most of his nautical knowledge from books he had borrowed from the Los Angeles Public Library. His boat, The Islander, was nicknamed The Library Navigator.

There are a lot of surprising things in the library; a lot of things you don't think of when you try to imagine all of what a library might contain.

There are so many things in a library, so many books and so much stuff, that I sometimes wondered if any one single person could possibly know what all of it is. I preferred thinking that no one does - I liked the idea that the library is more expansive and grand than one single mind, and that it requires many people together to form a complete index of its bounty.

Being an orchid hunter has always meant pursuing beautiful things in terrible places.

I grew up in libraries, or at least it feels that way.

Our visits to the library were never long enough for me. The place was so bountiful. I loved wandering around the bookshelves, scanning the spines until something happened to catch my eye. Those visits were dreamy, frictionless interludes that promised I would leave richer than I arrived.

In truth, a library is as much a portal as it is a place.

grew up in libraries

checkout machine

Connor said when they entered the building immediately after the fire, they felt like they'd died and gone to see if Dante knew what he was writing about.

Connor-Dominguez said when they entered the building immediately after the fire, they felt like they'd died and gone to see if Dante knew what he was writing about.

a library is as much a portal as it is a place—it is a transit point, a passage.

The library might have been the first place I was ever given autonomy.

She cocked her head at me. "You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?

The reading of the book was a journey.

Connor said when they entered the building immediately after the fire, they felt like they'd died and gone to see if Dante knew what he was writing about.

In truth, a library is as much a portal as it is a place--it is a transit point, a passage.

The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.