Quotes About Exploration

Troy had never been till I came here

We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.

Let us search the old highways.

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

Those who today explore the curious ramifications of the Sultan's Palace at Istanbul may fancy, not without reason, that they see the only reflection left on earth of the once crowded Roman Palatine.

He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign

As the golden news spread beyond California to the outside world, it triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. From all over the planet they came—from Mexico and Peru and Chile and Argentina, from Oregon and Hawaii and Australia and New Zealand and China, from the American North and the American South, from Britain and France and Germany and Italy and Greece and Russia.

Go deeper, go deeper. Don't land anywhere.

Când, în sfâr?it, g?sim ceea ce am c?utat în întuneric, aproape întotdeauna constat?m c? era exact asta. Întunericul.

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO GET MUDDY

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

Ray Bradbury's entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror.

All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.

For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck?

Brain out, sponge in' fiction.

It's the doors that make a prison, he says, not the walls. The doors you don't even try to open.

For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.

Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map.

The important and difficult job is never to find the right answers. It is to find the right question. - Peter Drucker

approach these questions with a "beginner's mind" - constantly seeing the world with fresh eyes

Questions need places to flourish

What if we brainstormed for Questions?