Quotes About Exploration

We are afraid of the things we do not know—just because we do not know them.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question of which way you point the nose of your plane. The pure joy of flight as an art has given way to the pure efficiency of flight as a science.... Science is insulating man from life -- separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetizes his senses so that he doesn't know what he's missing.

lindbergh charles ii

What kind of man would live where there is no danger? I don't believe in taking foolish chances. But nothing can be accomplished by not taking a chance at all.

Love, like Beauty, is suppose to take you somewhere. It has the possibility (the promise?) of taking you closer to yourself, closer to God, closer to life, to Spirit, to Mystery. No matter what you are loving.

When a peculiar fact or well-stated bit of information triggers a poem, most of what I'll need is there where I stumbled on it. If questions arise later (moons of Jupiter, a three-syllable squid), Google is awfully handy of course.

Go on rummaging, brushing off dust, though you may find later that it was the dust you wanted.

Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?

Mathematics is the most beautiful world. Everyone has their own entry key and the freedom to discover as much of it as they want.

New walks. More threads. Better spots. Bigger spreads.

The programming language of juking is random walks.

Second star to the right-" "-and straight on till morning? Yeah, I've heard that one before. Lit of the Ancient Homeworlds 101....

I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.

What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not to a different airport.