Quotes About Exploration

So close the book and go. The world is full of security systems. Hack one of them.

Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.

I've always loved just learning stuff for its own sake. Just to be smarter about the world around me.

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way.

she'd looked around the badlands, set down her pack, emptied her pockets of anything worth stealing, put extra underwear in a bag, and walked out onto the Niagara escarpment, past the invisible line that separated civilization from no-man's-land, out of the world as it was and into the world as it could be.

There was a whole subculture of mentalists who spent their nights breaking into boarded-up tube stations, forgotten sewers, abandoned buildings, and other places you just aren't meant to be.

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be.

If we go beyond what we once thought was our perimeter, then all limits are open to question.

and returning him safely to earth.

Como é bom deixar uma marca na superfície branca. Fazer um mapa com meus passos mesmo que seja temporário.

When the well runs dry, the nomad migrates. But if the barren landscape is within, where can one turn?

Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.

This is the problem with adventures. They bring out parts of you that you never even knew were there.

I wanted to be a King who would found a New World, not in some misty country far across the seas, but right here, right now, at home.

I have never cared for castles or a crown that grips too tight, Let the night sky be my starry roof and the moon my only light, My heart was born a Hero, My storm-bound sword won't rest, I left this harbour long ago on a never-ending quest. I am off to the horizon, Where the wild wind blows the foam, Come get lost with me, love, And the sea shall be our home.

A GIANT heart Needs a GIANT life! GIANT arms Can hold a world! Let me lead a GIANT'S life! No little steps, no holding back! A GIANT'S way, a GIANT'S track! Let my mistakes Be GIANT ones! For I can't live in little worlds! I need the space to run my fill I need to jump from hill to hill And if you take my woods from me I'll wander out into the sea And try to find another world So I can live a GIANT'S life!

We spent the time running free and unsupervised all over the island, and going out in boats on our own. For this was the 1970s, when the notion of childcare was to open the front door and say: 'Bye kids, come back when your hungry. Don't fall off a cliff...' -From The Writer's Map chapter First Steps

We spent the time running free and unsupervised all over the island, and going out in boats on our own. For this was the 1970s, when the notion of childcare was to open the front door and say: 'Buy kids, come back when your hungry. Don't fall off a cliff...' -From The Writer's Map chapter First Steps

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am… Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines… you are forced into direct experience [which] inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience.

See you on the other side of the screen, if you make it, earnest cyberspace cadet.

Where do you want to go, my heart? Anywhere - anywhere, out of this world.

Only those prepared to go too far will learn how far they can go.

era greu sa-mi imaginez ca m-as fi putut simti vreodata ca o tipa "misto", dar ma simteam ca o persoana de care eu insami as fi fost intrigata in primii mei ani acolo.