Quotes About Exploration

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles— find what interests you and that you can do and put your whole soul into it." —John D. Rockefeller III

It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.

And I will close my eyes and prepare myself so that they can unscrew my head and allow the map to slip into my lacunae. So that I can be filled and braced from the inside and fortified for the voyage. Because without my world inside me I will contract and congeal, more even than I am now, without speech and without actions and without any purchase upon time.

Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one, that people in other cultures live differently and get by just fine. Insects do that, too, only better.

If you've never known love, you never know where it is, you don't know what it looks like or it sounds like, you look in the most unlikely places to find it.

The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far in it.

The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far into it. I really need to take a shower.

Within your lifetime will, perhaps, As souvenirs from distant suns Be carried back to earth some maps Of planets and you'll find that one's So hard to color that you've got To use five crayons. Maybe, not.

I dream of hiking into my old age.

Look up more than you look around.

With a book in your hand...you can go anywhere you want

Let's shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking.

If we're satisfied with our life—not necessarily happy or delighted that we've exceeded our wildest expectations, just satisfied—we yield to inertia. We continue doing what we've always done. If we're dissatisfied, we may go to the other extreme, falling for any and every idea, never pursuing one idea long enough so that it takes root and actually shapes a recognizably new us.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress.

Whether she knew it then or not, she would bore into her own interior, confronting an unknown as wild and uncertain as any new world a missionary had seen. A place as rare as Noah's.

Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

Can I tell you what I'm doing? I'm in search of a new story for myself. I need something to do that gets me excited in the morning and wears me out by bedtime.

Martha Freeman

Slowly we wound uphill past fields and thick forest until we reached the eastern edge of the Rift Valley. Far below, as far as I could see, lay the golden plain ringed by blue mountains. It was true, it was there, and more magical than I had ever pictured it.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery