Quotes About Exploration

Research in the natural sciences operates in successive approximations. We are glad to be able to offer many good problems for research by generations to come.

I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

I'm a naturally curious person.

Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you have to get rid of all those internal censors that we adults have, the things that say, 'Don't go there, that's not allowed.'

Nature was my kindergarten.

I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

The woods were thick with shadowed green, and Rhonda wished she were in them, walking animal trails until they faded into the brush and she was lost, could stay lost for good.

Wind in the high boughs brushed leaves like the sound of distant water. As the canopy shifted, light flowed across the forest floor. He'd forgotten the pleasures of being in the woods.

Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or tradition. It is about experiencing life in the here and now and about removing the dualistic distinctions between I and you between subject and objective, between our spiritual and our ordinary, everyday activities.

Ada skipped lightly over the seven little chimney post in her elegant black tightrope-walking slippers.

They were happy, and free, and the endless sky awaited them. It was enough.

Trudging off into a swamp in the middle of the night had seemed like a god idea at the time but, like most of Frey's ideas, the reality fell short of the concept.

He welcomed challenges; they kept him sharp, showed that he was approachable, and oftentimes made him explore avenues previously unthought-of.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Archaeologist, adventurer — I saw the Indiana Jones movies. They are the same.

All the June Saturday afternoon Sam Pollit's children were on the lookout for him as they skated round the dirt sidewalks and seamed old asphalt of R Street and Reservoir Road that bounded the deep-grassed acres of Tohoga House, their home.

You have to be more discerning, Lily, when experimenting with bondage. He wiggled his eyebrows. I'd make a great master.

It will take time, little one, but give our ways a chance. There are wondrous things we can do. Concentrate on the things you would enjoy. Shape-shifting, flying with birds, running free with the wolves." Her small fist jammed into her mouth to stop a strangled sound somewhere between fear and hysterical laughter.

I'm hearing something. Tell me you are not taking me into a cave full of bats. Say it right now, Jacques, or I'm out of here. I am not taking you into cave filled with bats.

I want to take you into the forest, Raven, my forest, where the trees are thick and few people have ever set foot.

Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland by George Gamow

Soviel ich weiß, enden viele Abstiege tödlich, weil die Aufsteiger vergessen, daß der Weg zurück ins Vertraute manchmal größere Leidensfähigkeit und die Aufbietung größerer Kräfte verlangt als die Route hinauf in den Traum.