Quotes About Exploration

Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.

It is only the blind eye of the adult that finds the familiar uninteresting.

To have output you must have input. It helps to go on a period of creative nourishment, or dolce far niente, clearing the brain. Go to bed with the cat, some flouffy pillows, tea and a book which could not in any sense be called improving. Read for fun for a change: superior Chicklit is good, or children's classics. You are not allowed to try and analyse what the author is doing. After a good sleep, go and do something new, or that you haven't done for a while....

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Don't for heaven's sake , be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

I sometimes wonder if it's just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they're supposed to be by going nowhere.

Jika kau memilih untuk mencari sesuatu, maka sebaiknya kau siap menghadapi apa pun yang kau temukan. Karena mungkin itu bukan seperti yang kau harapkan.

Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.

Reality is frigid; I have to dip one toe at a time and grow accustomed to the shock before wading in further.

Because that's what stories do. They help you escape, and they give you the chance to do things you never imagined you would or could. They let you feel heartbreak you've never had and experience adventures from the safety of your own room. They are dreams for those who are still awake. They

I didn't know why it's called getting lost. even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turns to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected

If you travel in space for three years and come back, four hundred years will have passed on Earth. I am only an armchair astronomer, but I have the odd sense that I have returned from a journey to a world where nothing quite makes sense.

You will ask yourself How come; you will ask yourself What if.

Maybe there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feelings bears you like a tide.

You might live on top of the biggest toxic waste dump on the planet, but if you never dig, then all you ever know is that your grass is green and your garden is lush.

For the risk of it, for the sheer surprise of pressing one's nose to the glass and finding someone staring back on the other side.

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

There are a lot of places, I reply, that I thought I'd never go.

She wondered how big the world was, really, when you crossed it, instead of traced it with your finger on the map.

Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

I always get the funniest expressions from colleagues when I tell them that the best scientists understand that 2–3 percent of whatever it is they are studying is simply not quantifiable—it may be magic or aliens or random variance, none of which can be truly ruled out. If we are to be honest as scientists Ã¢â'¬Â¦ we must admit there may be a few things that we are not supposed to know. I

It turns out that I learned something from my dear old dad after all: firemen are experts at getting into places they shouldn't be.

To us, summer was a verb

Maybe there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feeling bears you like a tide.