Quotes About Exploration

Secondo me, bisogna trovargli un nuovo istitutore», disse Larry. «Ti allontani da casa cinque minuti, e quando torni, lo trovi che sta sbudellando Moby Dick nel portico.»

The trouble with you hunting blokes is lack of imagination,' said Larry critically. 'I supply magnificent ideas – all you have to do is to try them out. But no, you condemn them out of hand.

Talking cheerfully, we would set out, and the dogs, tongues lolling, tails wagging, would leave the shade of the tangerine trees and follow us.

The dogs would fan out ahead of us, cocking their legs, snuffling in the dark holes that honeycombed the great, ancient olive trees, and dashing off in noisy and futile pursuit of the swallows

rolled their eyes, panted and gasped, and tried by every means possible to show us that they were at death's door from starvation. Unusually, Roger did not join in. Instead he was sitting out in the sunshine in front of a patch of brambles watching something with great intentness. I went over to see what was intriguing him to such an extent that he was ignoring my sandwich crusts. At

Roger and I would squat in the heavily scented shade of the myrtle bushes and watch the array of creatures that passed us; at certain times of the day the branches were as busy as the main street of a town.

Olvidándome de mi inminente peligro de ser educado, salí con Roger a cazar luciérnagas por entre las abundantes zarzas

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.

Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea. And the East and West the wander-thirst that will not let me be.

beyond the east of the sunrise,beyond the west of the sea, and the east and west, the wander thirst. that will not let me be.

There are many technical workers who enjoy wandering so much that, like Alice in Wonderland, they don't much care where they go, so long as they get somewhere.

If you cannot think of three ways of abusing a tool, you do not understand how to use it. Faithful

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going, when he got there he didn't know where he was, and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve.

I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Think sideways!

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Beyond the Alps lies Italy.

The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool is happy, that he knows no more.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.