Quotes About Exploration

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies" -

Men were not meant to leave the earth. Spend too much time in the clouds and you never want to come back down again.

George R.R. Martin

Adventure stank. She boasted sixty oars, a single sail, and a long lean hull that promised speed. Small, but she might serve, Quentyn thought when he saw her, but that was before he went aboard and got a good whiff of her.

Arya never seemed to find the places she set out to reach.

The farther in they went, the closer the cliffs pressed to either side. They followed the moonlit ribbon of stream back toward its source. Icicles bearded its stony banks, but Jon could still hear the sound of rushing water beneath the thin hard crust.

If I'm not learning, check my pulse!

We all live our lives, but a reader lives a hundred other lives.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies.

He gave the world another world.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

downtown. He held the matchbox up at the level of his chest so the cricket could see out. This was the first time Chester had been able to watch where he was going on the subway. The last time he had been buried under roast beef sandwiches. He hung out of the box, gazing up and down the car.

The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

I recall the eerie pleasure of getting a copy of the U-2 Users' Manual .

The more we know of the history of the universe, the more we know about ourselves.

The more we know about the history of the universe, the more we know about ourselves and the questions we are driven to ask.

Books — the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.