Quotes About Exploration

I want to open myself up, I want to experience other dimensions, I don't want to be bound by the rules of this world. Does that make me a freak?

Having someplace in mind that you were traveling to was different from not having any place.

Miss Koala, the Eastern Star, and the Simón Bolívar.

It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends

And they tramped off to the forests with sturdy youths bearing guitars, twang-twang!

That's the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere.

Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

Couldn't one go right away, to the far ends of the earth, and be free from it all? One could not. The far ends of the earth are not five minutes from Charing Cross. nowadays. While the wireless is active, there are no far ends of the earth.

I have travelled, and looked at the world, and loved it. Now I don't want to look at the world anymore, there seems nothing there. In not-looking, and in not-seeing comes a new strength and undeniable new gods share their life with us, when we cease to see.

My known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.

A Prelude, 1907 Lessford's Rabbits, 1908

I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one. I had to call upon all my Traveler experience and special powers to figure it out. It's called...Eenie, meenie, miney...mo! -Bobby Pendragon

Dimmi, dimmi se mai fu fatta cosa alcuna

If there are fish that would swim or birds that would fly only after investigating the entire ocean or sky, they would find neither path nor place.

How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor heard? I believe the exploration and enrichment of the human spirit is what determines our very humanity. Such enrichment provides an inner compass that can lead civilizations to greatness.

Let's try, said Evelyn. Let's do it for the mermicorns.

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

If you are satisfied with the results you are now getting, why change? If you are not satisfied, why not experiment?

The ability to read opened up a new and magic world for him, a world he had never dreamed of before. It changed him. It broadened his horizon and gave him vision; and, for a quarter of a century, reading remained the dominant passion of his life.

called Forest Park—and it was a forest, probably not much different in appearance from what it was when Columbus discovered America. I frequently walked in this park with Rex, my little Boston bulldog. He was a friendly, harmless little hound; and since we rarely

until I had wandered beyond railways, beyond stage lines, to a land of varmints and rattlesnakes, where the coming of a stranger was an event, and men lived and died in the shadow of one blue hill.

But the expectation of the self, to be informed in its nothingness--if only I can get out of this old place and into the right new place, I can become a new person--places a heavy burden on travel.

He who goes questing for what he wants may discover, along the way, what he needs.

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.