Quotes About Exploration

What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone's library is like peeking into their DNA.

The boy stood with the mouth of the cave yawning wide behind him.

Make an Inventory of Your Creative Imaginings What are the things you really might want to do someday if you have the time, money, and inclination? Write them on your Someday/Maybe list. Typical categories include: Things to get or build for your home Hobbies to take up Skills to learn Creative expressions to explore Clothes and accessories to buy Toys (hi-tech and otherwise!) to acquire Trips to take Organizations to join Service projects to contribute

Books to read Music to download Movies to see Gift ideas Web sites to explore Weekend trips to take Ideas—Misc. (meaning you don't know where else to put them!)

What's a good idea?" is a good question, but only when you're about 80 percent of the way through your thinking! Starting there would probably blow anyone's creative mental fuses.

If you're waiting to have a good idea before you have any ideas, you won't have many. What's

The best way to get a good idea is to get lots of ideas. —Linus Pauling

She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of the village, in fragments of smooth timber or glass in the jetsam. She will ask them, Where did you come from? How did you get here? And they will answer her in voices very like her own, but with new lilts and squeaks and splashes in them that show they are their own.

I love afternoons like that, like when we talk about things like metempsychosis, when we learn so much, and explore so much, and ideas grow and take flight, like the idea about the universe and the egg. I love being home-schooled, when we don't have to stick to subjects and timetables and rules.

The world will be our oyster. We'll be wandering stars. We'll be footloose and free.

We are all wanderers and travellers, refugees and pilgrims until we return once more to the stars.

They climbed the wide stairways. Their footsteps echoed and echoed through the house. What on earth will you be doing with something so large? said Mum. I shall live in it with my servants, of course, said Mina. Or I shall establish a school. A school, my lady? Yes. A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.

A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.

For me, the Canyon isn't just a tourist destination. It's a living, breathing place. It has a dozen plants that live nowhere else.

Persons seeking to find scholarship herein will be sued; persons motivated to discover meaning will be exiled; persons seeking to find an allegory will be summarily ordained.

Tazburg, Mise, Divine, South Ridge." He read the names off the

When I saw what was in there I felt like I had happened upon a treasure trove. Books! I pulled a goodly number of them out

The girl had never ridden in a car before. She had probably never even seen a car, just the old trucks used at the camp.

Pine was normally a light packer, a one-suitcase sort of girl. But for this trip, she had brought a second small suitcase. She set it on her bed and opened it. She looked down at the oddball assortment of items carefully packed inside

looked over at John. He had pulled a dozen books off the shelf and looked to be trying to read them all at once.

Small observations can lead to large breakthroughs.

rooms one by one until they came to the stairs.

There were five, not counting the guide. The man and

CHAPTER 33 PULLER WAS FOLLOWING LANDRY over to her place. She was ahead of him in a dark blue, white-topped Toyota FJ four-by-four Cruiser. It looked rugged and durable and ready to roll on asphalt or sand, which was probably why she had purchased it.