Quotes About Exploration

If you truly want to understand something, try to change it - Kurt Lewin -

The genre is called travel writing for a reason: it involves a traveler. Mostly, the traveler in good travel writing is not a local and doesn't pretend to be.

If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

Said by Maltcassion the Dragon: Humans, he scoffed. Always so inquiring about stuff. Never satisfied with the status quo. It will be your downfall, but oddly enough, it´s also one of your more endearing features. Do we have any otheres? Oy yes, plenty.

We remember David and Catriona Balfour as friends, colleagues, worthy members of our calling, protagonists in Kidnapped and Catriona and for all the booksploring they did— especially finding a way into Barchester, for which we will always be grateful.

Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.

For God's sake, Mother," he said in an exasperated tone, "is there nothing dumb, daft or dangerous that you haven't tried at some point?

It is written.

Sometimes living in the BookWorld is like living in Legoland.

O brave new world, that has such stories in't!

La seguii, e constatai che quello scavo era di natura archeologica. Dei pioli conficcati nel terreno erano collegati da una cordicella, per delimitare l'area in cui quei volontarii picconavano il suolo, cercando di fare meno rumore possibile.

saw a vision of the world and all the options there could be!

They continue to eat porridge and take long walks in the forest.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.

All jobs are temporary in the new economy—henceforth you always need to be looking for the next opportunity.

Embrace the unknown. It is the only certainty.

that old energy in the caves, you know. People who spend

When we were growing up, Cooper Island was our whole world." "And then we went out into a much bigger world, so the island and everything on it now seem smaller in comparison.

It is to the unknown one yields most impulsively; it is toward the unknown that one feels the most total, the most instinctive obligation.

The obstinate miner of the void exploits his fertile mine

When I think of all the books I have yet to read, I am sure that I am still happy.