Quotes About Exploration

It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are.

Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice in Wonderland would say…

And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. RAINER MARIA RILKE , Letters to a Young Poet

Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.

Wonders have been born before. Sometimes they've been worshipped. There've been new things over and over, and some creatures have fallen groaning to the ground and others have learned to fly.

I think about curses and pirates. Skeletons guarding booby-trapped hideaways.

But there was no version of my life in which I wasn't getting my ass to Svalbard.

Han angret at han hadde latt seg overtale av Annika til ikke å undersøke hvor nøkkelen hørte til. Jonas hadde også straks villet finne ut hvor i huset dette rommet var, men Annika hadde vært urokkelig. Dette hadde de ikke noe med. Og kanskje hadde hun rett – de visste jo ikke hva de gav seg ut på …

We especially need imagination in science.

We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

the child has a type of mind that absorbs knowledge and instructs himself.

Once a direction is given to them, the child's movements are made towards a definite end, so that he himself grows quiet and contented, and becomes an active worker, a being calm and full of joy.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.

say, every journey begins with a single step.

Lucy shivered and went on again. 'This is an adventure,' she thought. 'You can't have an adventure if you stop in the middle.

In the winter, she lived like a mole, buried deep in her office, digging among maps and manuscripts.

Its entry is free, its paths are protected, and anything you fear will have been brought with you.

The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon)

No one holds so much knowledge that he can find nothing more interesting to know.

We are the wings of our thoughts.