Quotes About Exploration

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

We sail, at sunrise, daily, "outward bound."

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow of Nature.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring, but very interesting.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

One day, with life and heart, is more than time enough to find a world.

The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is an illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

The world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: yourself.

The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He never tries anything new. He is a brake on the wheels of progress.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

New roads; new ruts.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.

Every path has its puddle.

Geography is about maps, But biography is about chaps.

Life is a perilous voyage.