Quotes About Exploration

William Hjortsberg

As a general rule, the Chinese seldom ventured west of Sri Lanka, the Indians north of the Red Sea mouth, and the Italians south of Alexandria. It was left to the Greeks, who ranged freely from India to Italy, to carry the greatest share of the traffic.

When Vasco da Gama breached the Indian Ocean, the playing field had just been vacated by the one force capable of repelling him.

Royal Adventurers into Africa

In one of history's most bizarre chains of causation, the brutal, efficient newcomers were driven by a hunger for, of all things, culinary ingredients that today lie largely unused in most Western kitchens.

We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.

So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly like have a car that flies like have furniture that is alive.

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

to understand pretending," Ombric was fond of saying, "is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

To understand creativity is to conquer the boundaries of time and space.

Entender con la imaginación -solía decir Ombric- es conquistar los límites del tiempo y del espacio.

Do something new and you are new. How boring it is not to fire machine guns.

that people are most afraid of things they don't understand, and if something frightened you, you should get closer to it. That didn't mean it wouldn't still be an awful thing, but the awful you knew was easier to handle than the awful you imagined.

people are most afraid of things they don't understand, and if something frightened you, you should get closer to it. That didn't mean it wouldn't still be an awful thing, but the awful you knew was easier to handle than the awful you imagined.

But in these woods it's best to believe in all possibilities. There's more in these woods than a man can ever hope to understand.

Sam Winter Moon had cautioned him long ago that it was best to believe in all possibilities, that there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand. 13

people are most afraid of things they don't understand, and if something frightened you, you should get closer to it. That didn't mean it wouldn't still be an awful thing, but the awful you knew was easier to handle than the awful you imagined. So

donned their body armor, mounted their horses, and continued after Nightwind. They rode through the day without incident, the whole time in snowfall. Periodically

Sam Winter Moon had cautioned him long ago that it was best to believe in all possibilities, that there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

With every turn of the river since I'd left Lincoln School, the world had become broader, its mysteries more complex, its possibilities infinite.

A morel, tastiest mushroom there is. Been a long while since I went hunting morels. Here," he said to me. "Take this and go see if you can find any more along the river.

William Kent Krueger

He reached down and pulled something from the ground, then held it out in his hand so that we could see. "A toadstool?" I said. He shook his head. "A morel, tastiest mushroom there is. Been a long while since I went hunting morels. Here," he said to me. "Take this and go see if you can find any more along the river.