Quotes About Exploration

There are always possibilities.

If we run into any legionnaires we'll say we're out hiking and show them our forged imperial identity papers." "What is hiking?" Alain asked. "Walking for fun," Mari explained. "I mean, you're walking long distances, but not because you have to. For fun." Alain gazed steadily at her. "Walking long distances, for fun. Are you saying a joke?" Mari shook her head. "I know it sounds like that, but people really do it.

Alain looked ahead, where the road ran onward to where it would reach the city of Altis, and along many paths through the city and to the port, where ships would continue the road across the water to countless other roads. Sometimes you could see where the road was going, but other times you could only guess. Like life, the road took on different aspects, and might wander down strange and unexpected ways. But it never really ended.

how little we know even today about the most fundamental things.

What if they're waiting for us out there?" Jason asked, his voice echoing oddly in the tunnel. "Then you and I are going to go through them like a stampede through a weak fence," Kira said. "What happened to the Kira who didn't think she could do anything much?" "Kira doesn't have the luxury of self-doubt at the moment.

Yes," Kira said, wondering why a boy who had come to another world in a silvery ship would find that impressive. "Come on! We need to get good seats." Jason followed, staring around like a kid from the Great Woods encountering his first Mechanic devices.

Have you ever wondered who you would be if you hadn't grown up in the Syndicate Worlds?" "You mean, if I'd been born on some Alliance planet?" "Perhaps," Iceni said. "Or perhaps somewhere else. Some star system far away, where they've never heard of the Alliance or the Syndicate Worlds or the war. Suppose you had grown up there? Who would you be?

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. Mark Twain

I looked up the road I was going and back the way I came and since I wasn't satisfied decided to step off the road and cut me a new path. -Ms. Annie Johnson as told by Maya Angelou

One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been. Thomas Groome

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. -Joseph Campbell

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY Prolific American author of science fiction and fantasy

No se puede cruzar el océano limitándose a mirar el agua. RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Don't be fixated on following one particular path. For, if it doesn't work out, you could be very disappointed. Instead, look around and keep looking. There are many paths one can follow. One may not work out, but the other might. Always remember, when opportunity knocks, don't knock opportunity! Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Their loss-of-comms link-up point was just a mile to the southeast. There was no sign of any other human life.

You have to be willing to make mistakes regularly; there is nothing wrong with it.

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

Álvarez de Pineda's

Following the coast northward, he named the terra firma off his port side La Florida in recognition of the Easter season, known in Spain as Pascua Florida, "feast of flowers.

En route, he identified a few rivers, including what seems to be the Mississippi (a river he named Espiritu Santo, after "Holy Spirit"), which to European nations would become the most important river in North America.

As did every expedition leader, Álvarez de Pineda surely kept a log. In it would have been the only first-person observations of native cultures of the upper Gulf at the time of contact. According to secondhand accounts, he came across as many as forty native groups, which would have exhibited the fullness of aboriginal life, thousands of years old, before the sweeping carnage of European pathogens, biological imports transported on every ship crossing the Atlantic

Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.

Another thing I've been trying to do on my walks is to know what I'm looking at, when I'm looking at it. I want to be smart. When I walk down the sidewalk I see about a hundred different kinds of bugs and all I do is point at them like a caveman and say 'Ugh, look, a bug,' but I know each one of them must have a different name and a different reason why and how it came to be on the planet, and I don't know any of that stuff.

You want to know a secret?" I asked. "Sure," she said halfheartedly. "I love to sniff the insides of books," I said in a whisper. "Because each book has its own special perfume.