Quotes About Exploration

This is another paradox of our era: as native-born people find themselves surrounded by foreign-born people, they become less likely to explore our own country or the world. They become homebodies. The proportion of young adults living at home nearly doubled between 1980 and 2008, before the Great Recession hit, and the trend continues to creep upward.

Of that time, there is still much we do not know.

You have to know the things you don't know. You have to figure out what the questions are before you can start looking for answers.

I inherited curiosity from my Dad.

not a very nice place is it? rosen asked as they came back for the last load. they say there's a hundred different kinds of snake there. ninety-nine are poisonous. and the other one? kelly handed a carton over to the doctor. that one eats your ass whole.

Hvammsfjördur.

Broken and troubled characters must travel to new worlds to heal and overcome. Venture to the underworld and the subconscious where truths are met.

one lives as if one "might miss out on something.

To walk out of your front door as if you've just arrived from a foreign country; to discover the world in which you already live; to begin the day as if you've just gotten off the boat from Singapore and have never seen your own doormat or the people on the landing . . . it is this that reveals the humanity before you, unknown until now.

Necessity is the mother of invention, which probably explains why invention's father left home on the pretext of buying a newspaper and hasn't been heard of since.

It's not about just coming up with the one genius idea that solves the problem, but trying and failing at a hundred other solutions before arriving at the best one.

I'm quite comfortable with making the odd mistake, if it comes in the pursuit of new opportunities and new ideas Rob Fyfe, Air New Zealand CEO

Linus Pauling famously said, "If you want a good idea, start with a lot of ideas.

A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.

we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something new about the world, and maybe about ourselves, or to remind us of something important that we may have forgotten.

Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.

I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

This cave within a cave, this paleolithic pussy, this decent into the deepest dark of fuck.

Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going

I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heros; perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted and clarified.

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding.

Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.