Quotes About Exploration

I wonder if the explanation is even more complex than we imagine at present.

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.

For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?

Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something. But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.

Thing is," Grial said in a conspiratorial voice, "let me tell you a little secret, girlie. That road- those roads, all roads and paths in fact- they never end. You might think they do. You might think they just narrow and fade and disappear in the hoary depths of the forest? Not so, not at all! They merely go into hiding, and you just have to search a bit harder to see them.

And beyond the literal landscape—the one that has been tilled and planted or logged or fenced or simply let alone—there is the ideal landscape that lives only in the mind. Every day you explore the difference between the two, knowing that you can see what no one else can.

I'm tired of sailing my little boat Far inside of the harbor bar; I want to be out where the big ships float — Out on the deep where the Great Ones are! … And should my frail craft prove too slight For storms that sweep those wide seas o'er, Better go down in the stirring fight Than drowse to death by the sheltered shore! — Daisy Rinehart

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

How long must a fish study to understand human motivation?

I've studied the humans for almost twenty years, Rachner. They've been traveling in space for hundreds of generations. They've seen so much, they've done so much…. The poor crappers think they know what is impossible. They're free to fly between the stars, and their imagination is trapped in a cage they can't even see." The glowing streaks had passed across the

The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don't always get what you thought you were asking for.

We were looking for starfarers, but we were too small and all we saw were their ankles.

He] was an insect wandering in the cathedral his mind had become.

What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?" says Christina. Yes," says Will, looking puzzled. Didn't you?

Are we alone? Over time, you will come up with various answers to that same nagging question. Eventually one day it will occur to you that this endless asking is the answer you have been looking for. The fact that we have an ongoing dialogue with the universe is proof enough that there is "something" out there.

Cuando se viaja se abandonan las ciudades, por gratas que sean, con un sentimiento de alegría. Es la curiosidad que se despierta de nuevo, el instinto ancestral de cambio y movimiento, que llevamos en nosotros como herencia de nuestros remotísimos abuelos, nómadas incansables del mundo prehistórico ¿Qué habrá más allá? ¿Qué nos espera en la próxima etapa?...

A boy never outgrows his need for adventure. As mothers, we will need to develop a healthy balance when it comes to cultivating our sons' innate sense of adventure without overprotecting them in the process or, for that matter, not protecting them at all.

Writers are archeologists of themselves.

Each day is a adventure. And remember, there are no endings... Only new beginnings.

meaning, creativity, flexibility, and a sort of rapid prototyping not just of jobs but of entire careers.

Passion, pain, what's at hand—these are doorways to finding a purpose beyond material acquisition.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Science flies men to the moon, religion flies men into buildings.

I had learned a long time ago that there was no point at all in setting out to meet dragons and in the like on an empty stomach.