Quotes About Exploration

I walked through the spiderwebs, feeling them like magic on my face.

I was lost but I was not afraid,

I'd made a plan: I would follow this road wherever it led me. I'd ignore all the others that crossed its path, no matter how intriguing or promising they looked.

I was a terrible believer in things, but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical.

Put yourself in the way of beauty.

We're all just walking and walking and walking and trying to find our way, that all roads lead eventually to the mountaintop.

Travel by foot. There is so much you can't identify at top speed.

More things are learnt in the woods than from books; trees and rocks will teach you things not to be heard elsewhere. You will see for yourselves that honey may be gathered from stones and oil from the hardest rock. . . . St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Futurist James Ogilvy simply denounced managing through goal setting as "bunk." Instead, he recommends that: Organizations should tread near the edge of the future, making it up as they go along, with as much sensitivity, awareness, knowledge, compassion, feeling, and beauty as they can muster.139

We can venture forth into the great primordial stone swamp." "Interesting return address." She puckered up her face. "Better than writing Washington, D.C., on your letters.

Straining against her leash, the puppy tried to go a hundred different ways at once.

I feel everyone who has a chance should step out of India for a while to really see what it is like out there.

I want to see a bit more of New York, even though it's snowing and cold.

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.

Ali por uns segundos tive a sensação de haver desembarcado em país de língua desconhecida, o que para mim era sempre uma sensação boa, era como se a vida fosse partir do zero.

Mal tinha chegado ao país e queria encontrar todas as portas abertas ou explodi-las a dinamite. Eu já sabia que as portas estavam apenas encostadas. Talvez amanhã eu me visse eventualmente perdido num labirinto de 700portas.

Custei a aprender que para conhecer uma cidade, melhor que percorrê-la em ônibus de dois andares é se fechar num aposento dentro dela. Não é fácil, e eu sabia que entrar em Budapeste não seria fácil.

If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door.

No, no, the mind I love must still have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two (real snakes), a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of — and paths threaded with those little flowers planted by the mind. It must also have real hiding places, not artificial ones — not gazebos and mazes. And I have never yet met the cultivated mind that has not had its shrubbery.

We can seek, we can find, if we open our minds.

Whatever else astronomy may or may not be who can doubt it to be the most beautiful of the sciences?

Adventure most unto itself The Soul condemned to be; Attended by a Single Hound – Its own Identity.

There's a book that tells you where you should go on your vacation. It's called your checkbook.