Quotes About Exploration

toddlers learn more between 12 months and three years old than during any other stage throughout their whole life?

We seized the opportunity to take a grown-ups-only hiking trip in Acadia National Park.

Before anyone complains that they cannot fathom weekly excursions to another continent, let me clarify some definitions: A big adventure means something that requires a few hours—think half a weekend day. A little adventure could take just an hour or so, and fit on a lunch break or a weekday evening, as long as it is something out of the ordinary.

Planning questions: What "big adventures" (taking a few hours) would you like to try in the next month? List at least three. What "little adventures" (taking about an hour) would you like to try in the next month? List at least three.

Perhaps I couldn't tickle the inside of his ear, but I could reach the mysterious curves of his mind.

it; she must find out all she could.

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

We started out to see some of Paris on foot with him, stopping at the famous Café de la Paix, where you were supposed to see everyone you knew if you just sat there long enough. To sit at a sidewalk café having coffee or a drink – the sound and sight of France all around. The Champs-Elysées was incredible – the chestnut trees – how could one city attain such perfection? Who had dreamed it up? Who had made it all come true? I wanted to see every corner of it.

Imagination is the highest kite you can fly." — Lauren Bacall

Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try.

The world was out there waiting to be explored—and not just waiting, but wanting to be explored. So why in heaven's name shouldn't I investigate every nook and cranny?

The poop became a poop mountain; the pee became a pee ocean. And then somehow a Poop and Pee Airline was invented to fly travelers to Poop Mountain and Pee Ocean, although the code name for the airline was Dolphin Airlines, to keep the unsuspecting from being tipped off.

Mysteries are worth examining, even if they're too big to be understood.

open prairie. For hours, Oscar had been

quiet streets of his neighborhood, his dog, Zeke, trotting right beside him. He was studying an arrow-

Some of the world's richest and most famous people flew on the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg,

Things turn up in strange places all the time. For example library books, which possess a disconcerting ability to move from place to place, seemingly of their own volition.

forcing Magellan to seek shelter. He ordered the fleet to reverse course

and head north, toward the shelter offered by Paranaguá Bay.

From Fonseca's point of view, this was hardly an advantageous contract, for it gave Magellan too much

Río de la Plata, a funnel-shaped river located on the coast of what is now Argentina.

On August 11, 1520, Magellan carried out the sentence he had proclaimed for his nemesis, Juan de Cartagena

Magellan finally gave the command to weigh anchor on August 24. After the harrowing five-month layover