Quotes About Exploration

I am desperate for change, endlessly seeking novelty, where i can find it.

Foreign experiences increase both cognitive flexibility and depth and integrativeness of thought

I still crave the mental and physical jolt of being somewhere new, of descending aeroplane steps into a different climate, different faces, different languages.

He has a tendency to slip the bounds of the real, tangible world around him and enter another place. He

I am desperate for change, endlessly seeking novelty, wherever I can find it.

Esme began playing the game she often played with herself at times like this, looking over the room and working out how she might get round it without touching the floor. She could climb from the sofa to the low table and, from there, to the fender stool. Along that and then—

After he had sailed around the Mediterranean in 1869, Mark Twain said that travel was 'fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness'.

girls running around this old

...she made her home in between the pages of books.

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

I leave the other side of my life where it wants to stay, and follow the remainder of my life in search of the other side of it.

Where should we go after the last frontiers ? Where should the birds fly after the last sky ? Where should the plants sleep after the last breath of air ?

the poem is a dice throw on a patch of darkness that may or may not glow

Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.

Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans. Mahmûd Shabistarî

The past is a dark house, and we have only torches with dying batteries. It's probably best not to spend too much time in there in case the rotten floor gives way beneath our feet.

He taught me that language was rubbery, plastic. It wasn't, as I thought, something you just use, but something you can play with. Words were made up of little bits that could be shuffled, turned back to front, remixed. They could be tucked and folded into other words to produce unexpected things. It was like cookery, like alchemy. Language hid more than it revealed.

Fast unmittelbar darauf sandte der Dschungel seine schlanken grünen Finger auf die Fläche die Gato velassen hatte, und tastete nach neuen Stellen, wo er wachsen konnte.

Na última noite de lua cheia, tomamos a Brenantina, é esse o nome do nosso barco, e partimos da enseada de Brenan, no porto de Brenan, na cidade de Brenan I; cruzamos ao romper do dia o canal de Brenan; passamos junto ao terceiro rochedo de Brenan, para além do farol de Brenan, ao meio-dia avistamos o atol de Brenan, no meio do mar de Brenan. Em Brenan, tudo é Brenan!

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

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