Quotes About Exploration

In so wild and so beautiful a region your first day will be spent, every sight and sound novel and inspiring, and leading you far from yourself.

Thence a charming, wavering course is pursued still northward through the grandest scenery to Tahkou, Juneau, Chilcat, Glacier Bay, and Sitka, affording fine glimpses of the innumerable evergreen islands, the icy mountain-ranges of the coast, the forests, glaciers, etc. The round trip of two thousand miles is made in about twelve days, and costs about a hundred dollars:

We thought nothing of running right ahead ten or a dozen miles before turning back; for we knew nothing about taking time by the sun, and none of us had a watch in those days.

We are now in the mountains, and they are in us…

And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.

But we little know until tried, how much of the uncontrollable there is in us, urging us across glaciers and torrents, and up dangerous heights, let the judgement forbid as it may.

Indeed, a book is a path of words which takes the heart in new directions.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

Close one Pandora's Box and we open another, the President said. That's science for you, Mr. President.

I want to speak to you about the treasures hidden in books; and about the way we find them, and the way we lose them.

Part of being open to learning is taking risks!

Never been there, the Middle East, Qatar said vaguely.

Why bother to go through life if you can't do interesting shit?

Let me tell you a few things about this place, the UP," Laurent said, as they drove out of town in his Silverado pickup. "The UP is about the most remote place in the lower forty-eight—other

falls, the jumble of trees stretched the two hours into three.

Heart of Darkness

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After a fast lunch, Lucas, Letty, and Skye went over to Swede Hollow Park to look for other travelers. They found three, sitting together, passing a joint, and Skye told them about Henry—one of the three knew him—and asked about Pilate. None of them knew him, or had heard about him.

Lipsky said: "I'll tell you something, Layton: ninety-five percent it's nothing. Probably somebody shot a buck out of season, and you were smelling the gut dump. Those can be pretty hard to see in the dark, once they go gray. But, five percent, we gotta go look.

He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims' mail.

There is great literature about imprisonment, . . . about the foot soldier, . . . about the sea -- but not one great work about flying.

But define 'completely ridiculous shit,' Duvall said. Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.

You threw him into space?" "Yup." "And he didn't die?" "We only threw him out a little bit." Marce

I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.