Quotes About Exploration

You cannot know what it is like to be a bat by screwing your eyes tight, imagining membranous wings, finding your way through darkness by talking to it in tones that reply to you with the shape of the world.

Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it's no big deal that I'm not like Snow. I can be another thing; I'm meant to be another thing.

Why do people go to these places, these places that are not for them? It must be that they believe in their night vision. They believe themselves able to draw images up out of the dark. But black wells only yield black water.

Why do people go to these places, these places that are not for them?

There are real books all around the house, everywhere. She could pick one up and in mere seconds she could be involved in something that makes her laugh and feel nervous and hot and cold and forgive the world its absurdity.

The night was very stark, alternate streams of town cars and chequered taxicabs, blaring horns busily staking claims—here is the road and here is the sidewalk. But the road looked so much livelier, what if I tried the road?

Vikings, it seems, make their own way.

Just as London is not really England, Copenhagen is not, I am reliably informed, 'the real Denmark'.

Sacramento, capital of California, and went sailing along over the Great Valley.

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators... she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

That's for me. I am a great lover of 'I was there' books.

Ellery me ha subido a 250 dólares por guión; si la cosa se mantiene hasta junio, podré ir yo a Inglaterra y explorar yo misma mi librería. Si me veo con valor para hacerlo, claro. Vengo escribiéndoles cartas de lo más descaradas desde la seguridad que me dan los 5.000 kilómetros que hay por medio. Probablemente entraré un día en esa tienda y saldré de ella al cabo de un rato sin decirles quién soy.

Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on.

podre ir yo a Inglaterra y explorar misma a mi librería. Si me veo con el valor para hacerlo, claro. Vengo escribiéndoles cartas de los mas descaradas desde la seguridad que me dan 5000 kilómetros que hay de por medio. Probablemente entrare un día en esa tienda y saldré de ella al cabo de un rato sin decirles quien soy.

This is Great Tew. You can't find it on the map, you have to get lost on the way to Oxford.

The further from home you wander, the closer you get to Siberia.

Our job is to find out the truth, even if it is buried deep in the earth.

Every time Wallander stepped into someone's home, he felt as though he were looking at the front cover of a book that he had just bought

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.