Quotes About Exploration

I'm beginning to think I've led a much too sheltered life.

After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.

This wood," Yam told him, "is like human memory. It does not need to take events in their correct order. Do you wish to go to an earlier time and start from there?" "Would I understand more if I did?" Hume asked. "You might," said Yam. "Both of us might." "Then it's worth a try," Hume agreed. They went together down the left-hand fork.

You can't be fussy when you're off to seek your fortune.

Pero quería hacer algo, no estaba segura de qué, algo que fuera un poco mas interesante que adornar sombreros.

You can tell them you're a Homeward Bounder.

There's an enormous library, which boasts a copy of every book in the world — and many more from other worlds as well.

Writing, which is my form of celebration and prayer, is also my form of inquiry.

It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between.

Books are borrowed minds, and because they capture the soul of a people, they explore and celebrate all it means to be human.

The search of reason ends at the shore of the known

Play is our brain's favorite way of learning

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

When friends couldn't be found, the books were always waiting with something new to tell. Life that was getting too much the same could be shaken up in a few minutes by the pictures in a book of some ancient temple newly discovered deep in a rain-forest, a fuzzy photo of Uranus with it's up-and-down rings, or a prismed picture taken through the faceted eye of a bee. -Nita Callahan- -So You Want To Be A Wizard-

When friends couldn't be found, the books were always waiting with something new to tell. Life that was getting too much the same could be shaken up in a few minutes by the pictures in a book of some ancient temple newly discovered deep in a rain-forest, a fuzzy photo of Uranus with it's up-and-down rings, or a prismed picture taken through the faceted eye of a bee.

Jim chuckled. "All right. Listen, can you get me an uplink to the ship from there? I want a look at the BBS." Spock thought a moment. "That should be no problem. Wait a moment." His fingers danced over the keys. McCoy

For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the world and anything that comes our way. We have always known that there is a book for every occasion and every obsession. When in doubt, we are always looking things up.

What better place to kill time than a library? And for me, what better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?

They were collectors of words the same way so many of the gravel diggers were collectors of fossils. They kept an ear constantly alert for them, the rare, the unusual, the unique.

Along the borders of this world lie others. There are places you can cross. This is one such place.

Tributaries A river on a map is a simple thing. Our river starts at Trewsbury Mead, and follows a course of some two hundred and thirty-six miles to reach the sea at Shoeburyness. But anyone who takes the trouble to follow its route, whether by boat or on foot, cannot help being aware that, furlong by furlong, singleness of direction is not its most obvious feature. En route the river does not seem particularly intent on reaching its destination. Instead it winds its way

I was in a kind of no-man's-land, a place between places. The mind plays all sorts of tricks, gets up to all kinds of things while we ourselves are slumbering in a white zone that looks for all the world like inattention to the onlooker.