Quotes About Exploration

I run after her, not really giving chase. I'm running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

You believe that I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

Always and Everywhere a Book Is Waiting for Me

As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me -- and this is in retrospect -- that there was something primal, something right about it. Tarzan represented a pure being, somehow before the fall.

My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You're actually discovering in the writing process, you're actually creating knowledge.

As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?

They know where carter at, straight off the launching pad. Marching on the moon muthafucka I been to mars and back. Cleaner than laundry mats.

Put me in the wild I be there for a while.

Women's accounts of outdoor adventures repeatedly show how men and women can be in the same place while still in different worlds.

A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.

What would he do? He wouldn't be sitting here moping. He'd be figuring out some way of getting out of here. Christ, I'm woefully short on practical experience. The researcher's doom, actual field conditions.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.

If we didn't have fear, imagine the creativity in the world. Fear holds us back every step of the way.

Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.

All the people she was missing, the tribes she would never know and words she would never hear, the worry that they might right now be passing the one people she was meant to study, a people whose genius she would unlock, and who would unlock hers, a people who had a way of life that made sense to her.

Always in her mind there had been the belief that somewhere on earth there was a better way to live, and that she would find it.

For so long I'd felt that what I'd been trained to do in academic writing was to press my nose to the ground, and here was Nell Stone with her head raised and swiveling in all directions. It was exhilarating and infuriating

But don't you think there are larger issues the author is trying to explore?' 'Yes, but they shouldn't be given primacy over or even separated from the experience of the story itself.

Vailala Madness

They'd come in '31 to study two New Guinea tribes. But because Bankson was on the Sepik River, they'd gone north, up the mountains to the Anapa, with the hope that when they came back down in a year he'd be gone and they'd have their pick of the river tribes, whose less isolated cultures were rich with artistic, economic, and spiritual traditions.