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Quotes About Exploration

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.
~ Helene Cixous
You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and you will not find that person anywhere.
~ Moliere
While looking for our place, we miss our calling. Looking under rocks for gold, while we should have been plucking stars.
~ Unknown
on one of my first real adult vacations, my husband and I went to Carlsbad Caverns. That place captured my imagination like few places on this earth ever have. It just transported me to the early days of the cavern. I could imagine the first people who found it, explored it. It is endless
~ Mary Connealy
Maizy was a little bit afraid of what it might be because Pa had gotten a few wild ideas in his day.
~ Mary Connealy
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~ Mary Connealy
America should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth." President John F Kennedy 1961
~ Unknown
Rover producing clumping of dust (circled) as would occur in atmosphere.
~ Unknown
Sex is the tabasco sauce which an adolescent national palate sprinkles on every course in the menu.
~ Unknown
He created us for adventure, not ease.
~ Unknown
The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS
~ Mary Downing Hahn
The lake's deep...and dark...and dangerous.
~ Mary Downing Hahn
Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Ancients pulled metals more precious than gold from the center of the earth - They spun into giant lacy wings that flew them to the stars and back "Is that what you'd do with wings?" She shook her head "No, I'd fly to the stars, but I'd never come back
~ Mary E. Pearson
Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away. When nothings left, maybe you can reach for something that no one knew existed. Or maybe we became something new. Maybe we made it exist.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Could anyone really travel so far that they might not find their way home again?
~ Mary E. Pearson
Possibility became a winged creature that could take me anywhere I asked.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Who made you afraid of an open world? An open sky?
~ Mary E. Pearson
If I had been shipped off to Dalbreck, there are valuable things I never would have learned.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Who made you afraid of an open world? An open sky? Was it Venda? Your parents?" "No one did anything," I answered quietly. "Then hold on to me," he said. "Let me show you the stars.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Live dangerously - take your chances.
~ Mary E. Pearson
It began with the stars
~ Mary E. Pearson
We were alone, we had each other, and we had a whole wilderness ahead of us.
~ Mary E. Pearson
I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.
~ Mary Ellen Mark