Quotes About Exploration

as if I were only a flower after all and not the map of the country in which it grows.

Did you ever think, maybe you're not too big? Maybe this town's just too small? - Big Fish

It was like rushing forward in the dark forest without knowing what danger lurked in front of my face.

We swam in sunshine and in rain; we swam in the morning, when the sea was sluggish as soup, we swam at night, the water flowing over our arms like undulations of black satin; one afternoon we stayed in the water during a thunderstorm, and a fork of lightning struck the surface of the sea so closer to us we heard the crackle of it and smelt the burnt air.

he felt that a treasure-house of new fiction lay vaguely under his hand, if he could only find the key to it.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,' he wrote. 'Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

If your library is not unsafe, it probably isn't doing its job.

You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Soon part of me will explore the deep and dark Floor of the harbour . . I am everywhere, I suffer and move, my mind and my heart move With all that move me, under the water

Some things are just sitting there, waiting to be discovered. Other things are probably better off left alone

When you sit down with a book, you are separating yourself out of your world for a few hours and getting lost in the story.

it seemed like a great adventure, at least at the start.

Ein Junge, der bereit war, neue Menschen kennenzulernen. Ein Junge, der neue Abenteuer erleben wollte. Und vor allem: ein Junge der stolz darauf war, anders zu sein.

Teach your inner child to check things out. Give him permission to ask lots of questions.

When two-year-olds are thwarted (like every three minutes), they have intense anger and temper tantrums. At this stage the child needs to take possession of things in order to test them by purposeful repetition.

Every aspect of life is an experiment that can be better understood if it is perceived in that way.

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.

Sometimes science fiction does become scientific discovery.

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

I made a fine tramp and a fair drover;

There was no snow here, but a wind was blowing from the east which searched the marrow.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking,perceiving, questioning are encouraged.