Quotes About Exploration

I have always learned the most about the world by going to places I was never supposed to be and being with people I was never supposed to meet.

Only fools venture where the spirits dread

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

Every abyss is navigable by little paper boats.

On March 2, 1699, Iberville arrived at the mouth of the river, where there was fresh water and a strong current. The following day, Shrove Tuesday, they began their travels up the river. Finding a bayou twelve miles upstream, they named it in honor of the holiday, Mardi Gras Bayou, and thus was Mardi Gras introduced to the Louisiana territory

At the bluff above the river, which Iberville considered a good spot for a settlement, he saw a red stick, the maypole used by the Indians for hanging up offerings of fish and game. Iberville called the place Baton Rouge.

Nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach... I could make promises to myself and to other people and there would be all the time in the world to keep them. I could stay up all night and make mistakes, and none of it would count.

I was not going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life reduced to a short story. I was going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life expanded to a novel, and I still do.

I went because I was interested in the alchemy of issues.

I have been looking all my life for history and have yet to find it.

I've never been any place I wanted to go.

Nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach. Just around every corner lay something curious and interesting, something I had never before seen or done or known about.

Or was it even a dream? Who is the director of dreams, would he care? Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought.

Everything was unmentionable but nothing was unimaginable. This mystical flirtation with the idea of "sin"—this sense that it was possible to go "too far," and that many people were doing it—was very much with us in Los Angeles in 1968 and 1969.

We went to get away from ourselves, and the way to do that is to drive, down through Nogales some day when the pretty green places pall and all that will move the imagination is some place difficult, some desert.

the sails would fill, and the ship might

Hero-ology, Spell-ology, Revenge-ology, Beast-ology, and Beautyology.

Yeah, I have a feeling I'm going to be very happy at Mount Olympus Academy," said Athena. Smiling, she tugged Pallas toward the stairs. "C'mon. I can hardly wait to show you around!

Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes.

My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week. Julia to Avis

There was nothing to do but venture forth, in search of the person I might become. At