Quotes About Exploration

Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.

To get to know someone new, you need to touch a lot.

Wonder feeds our best intelligence and is perhaps its source.

With my new habit of carrying binoculars everywhere, I feel imbued with a readiness to see, an attitude that my life itself is a kind of field trip. The urban naturalist has the terrific luxury of stepping out her door and into "the field," without long rides or carpools, or putting money in for gas and Dairy Queen. When does the field trip being? Whenever we start paying attention.

Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor.

We know we are very special. Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?

She found it an interesting exercise to explore a place with a person she did not know well, following not only her own impulses but also his.

What place would that be, a whole world without roads? It was a panicking thought. A world without roads! He would go nowhere in such a place. He would be trapped where he was, he would have lived out his life only where he was born.

A distância mais curta entre dois pontos pode ser a linha reta, mas é nos caminhos curvos que se encontram as melhores coisas.

A menor distância entre dois pontos pode ser a linha reta, mas é nos caminhos curvos que se encontram as melhores coisas.

Os encontros e as despedidas, tanta estrada, tanta, teria que usar sapatos de ferro como os da rainha da história antiquíssima cruzando montanhas e vales, procurava alguma coisa - o quê?!

The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?

Ask a burning question, get a burning answer

What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.

They are the adventurers with no goal other than the everyday joy of discovery – they are galumphing.

I know there's a road laid out. Just need to find the trail.

It still comes as a shock to realize that I don't write about what I know, but in order to find out what I know. —PATRICIA HAMPL If

SECRET #42 You may not have to look very far to find more than what you were searching for.

It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.