Quotes About Exploration

Quem não tem amigo é que viaja sem bagagem.

Quem viveu pregado a um só chão não sabe sonhar outros lugares.

Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.

O bom do caminho é haver volta. Para ida sem vinda basta o tempo.

Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.

How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful

No corner of PARC generated anything like the Kay group's free-wheeling mania. "It was an amazingly seductive environment," recalled Merry. "I was there late at night all the time. People were so full of ideas and excitement, and of course everybody knew more than anybody else about how the world was supposed to be.

Attached to the survey was William Phipps Blake, a young geologist from a prominent Eastern family. Blake's party failed to discern a suitable railroad route, but he did stumble upon a remarkable geologic feature in the trackless desert.

thirty-four-year-old Ohio-born physician, Oliver Meredith Wozencraft had contracted an acute case of wanderlust from the Argonauts passing through his hometown of New Orleans. Early in 1849 he left behind

the federal government pondered the river's greater virtues. Davis's railroad survey had whetted the War Department's thirst for geographic knowledge. The task of achieving the next great leap in understanding was assigned to a young officer of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers bearing the evocative name of Joseph Christmas Ives.

Taking control of a ship operated by those bumpy-headed savages

under the same cross that Christopher Columbus's three caravels crossed the Atlantic to the New World.

For the novelist, knowledge is not subdivided into rigidly demarcated compartments, and there are no taboos, no 'disreputable' subjects.

She was a novel whose plot became more interesting as I delved deeper into the book.

the more things you're interested in, the better your work will be.

use design as a secret disguise to infiltrate whatever world you want to go into. If you do that over and over again, and then translate that interest and curiosity into the work that you're doing, you'll do great.

And if I can't get excited about whatever that something else is, I really have trouble doing good work as a designer. To me, the conclusion is inescapable: the more things you're interested in, the better your work will be.

Scandinavia, though, really is terra incognita. The Romans didn't bother with it. Charlemagne couldn't care less.

The only bad ideas are the ones never tried," Puck

Girls don't come to the Barbizon for answers, Laura... They come to find out what questions they need to be asking.

Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

If we do not play in the dangerous surf, we will drown in puddles.

Marija, if we do not play in the dangerous surf, we will drown in puddles.

Answers are temporary things, Anne", he had said. "There will always be more questions.