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Quotes About Exploration

This world is full of new things to try. Not all of them will bring you joy, but those that don't will at least bring you education- as you'll learn to never do them again.
~ Nat Gertler
Readers are lucky -– they will never be bored or lonely.
~ Natalie Babbitt
The first house only is important; the first house, the road, and the wood.
~ Natalie Babbitt
You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. Theories of Time and Space
~ Natasha Trethewey
If low self-esteem dreads the unknown and unfamiliar, high self-esteem seeks new frontiers. If low self-esteem avoids challenges, high self-esteem desires and needs them. If low self-esteem looks for a chance to be absolved, high self-esteem looks for an opportunity to admire.
~ Nathaniel Branden
This earth is the distant star we must find a way to reach.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
there are few things whether in the outward world, or, to a certain depth, in the invisible sphere of thought—few things hidden from the man who devotes himself earnestly and unreservedly to the solution of a mystery.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Aylmer had long laid aside in unwilling recognition of the truth—against which all seekers sooner or later stumble—that our great creative Mother, while she amuses us with apparently working in the broadest sunshine, is yet severely careful to keep her own secrets, and, in spite of her pretended openness, shows us nothing but results.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I breakfasted at four [a.m.], was in the saddle at five, and between that hour and 6 p.m. I rode fifty miles over a rough country, unknown to everybody, and only myself for a guide
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another." – Aristocles, son of Ariston
~ Nathaniel Whitten
Pritisnila je na gumb dvigala. Šla bo in kupila letalsko vozovnico. Svoboda, ki jo iš?e, je njena, ne Satakejeva, ne Jajoina, ne Jošijina, in prepri?ana je bila, da mora biti tam nekje zunaj. ?e so se za njo zaprla še ena vrata, nima druge izbire, kot da najde nova in jih odpre. Dvigalo, ki ji je prišlo naproti, je je?alo kot veter. END.
~ Natsuo Kirino
Mysticism is the function of a mind looking for alternatives to reality.
~ Neal Asher
Knut Haugland spent 101 days in 1947 as the radio operator on the Kon-Tiki, a simple raft that crossed the Pacific Ocean with only a six-man crew. Beyond offering great adventure, the journey exorcised his own demons.
~ Neal Bascomb
His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.
~ Neal Shusterman
There are mysteries in Everlost. Some of them are wonderful, and others scary. They should all be explored, though- perhaps that's why we're here: to experience the good and the bad that Everlost has to offer.
~ Neal Shusterman
On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.
~ Neal Shusterman
Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.
~ Neal Shusterman
What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?
~ Neal Shusterman
I won't tell you what to look for, because if I do, you'll miss the things you would intuitively find.
~ Neal Shusterman
Then his eyes glazed over for a second. 'I go places sometimes,' he told me, his voice as thready as his eyes. 'Don't know why I go places... I just do.
~ Neal Shusterman
Then they pull onto Route 66, heading east into a world that's ripe for saving
~ Neal Shusterman
The exploration of possibility has always been the realm of science. The true scientist leave practical application to others.
~ Neal Shusterman