Quotes About Exploration

It's hard to find a particular place when you don't one hundred percent know you're even looking for it,

Raymond wondered how it would feel to live in a world where a flight of stairs stood as a massive

Can children grasp the full meaning of Christ's coming, death, and resurrection? Can we as adults? No, but awareness of the mystery draws us to explore, wonder, and discover more and more, year after year.

Stories and their meaning will be learned best by children if they actively experience them.

A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

When little ones say they want to go home, they almost never mean it. They mean they are tired of this particular game and would like to start another.

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.

Forests have secrets,' he said gently. 'It's practically what they're for. To hide things. To separate one world from another.

All things are strange which are worth knowing.

I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things You grant us in this mortal mere -- the fruit in the garden, too, was like this. Unknown, and therefore infinite. Eve and her mate swallowed eternity, every possible thing, and made the world between them.

One: A Library Is the Size of the Universe and the Universe Is the Size of a Library. Two: Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them. Three: Books Operate Under Unstable Physicks so Turn out the Lights when You Lock Up.

That's what a map is, you know. Just a memory.

Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.

A story is a map of the world. A gloriously colored and wonderful map, the sort one often sees framed and hanging on the wall in a study full of plush chairs and stained-glass lamps: painstakingly lettered, researched down to the last pebble and participle, drawn with dash and flair, with cloud-goddesses in the corners and giant squid squirming up out of the sea...[T]here are more maps in the world than anyone can count. Every person draws a map that shows themselves at the center.

Fairyland is a very Scientifick place. We subscribe to all the best journals.

Catherynne M. Valente

Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.

When a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things...grant[ed] us in this mortal mere...Unknown and therefore infinite.

A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

I would have run wild through a magical kingdom and never looked back. Talking animals? Yes. Witches and monsters? Yes. Dark queens? Absolutely. Give it right here. I would have said yes to all of it.

I shall not be afraid of anything I haven't even seen yet. If Fairyland-Below is a terrible place, well, I shall feel sorry for it. But it might be a wonderful place! Just because the wild striped cats don't know what diamonds are doesn't mean they're vicious; it just means they have wildcat sorts of wants and wealth and ways of thinking, and perhaps I could learn them and be a little wilder and cattier and stripier myself.