Quotes About Exploration

William Kent Krueger

William King

for geometry, you know, is the gate of science, and the gate is so low and small that one can only enter it as a little child.

Sometimes there is no choice but to walk into your own house. Far away, you think, and you do not want to see. You come home and you say do not tell me. You say, I have hunted the elk all over the snowfields of the Selway, and I do not want to know what happened here. And then there is a morning you walk in and take a look in your own house, like any traveler.

We had been given flowers, good food, and a soft bed, all in exchange for declaring our love. I thought we might go from town to town and marry in each one.

Writing is magic for those willing to follow their imagination to a region where anything is possible.

Students saw traditional religion as a point of departure rather than a place for answers.

bike was old and loud and smelled like something was burning when he rode it, but it was also loaded with chrome, its tank was a sweet cobalt blue, and with the detachable windshield and leather saddlebags that came with it, it was in shape enough to carry him out onto the road all over again.

There are two kinds of adventurers those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?

When the Corps of Discovery dropped anchor at a Mandan village in 1804, they were met by blond-haired, blue-eyed Mandans—the offspring of native women and French explorers or trappers. On

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

Go not as told by others, But by other ways go.

Art is like hard digging. Without daily searching, nothing can be found. Art is like hard digging. Without daily searching, nothing can be found.

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success." —Ernest Shackleton, advertisement for crew for 1914 Antarctic expedition

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Don't you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

If you feel safe in the area you're working in, you're not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you're capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don't feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you're just about in the right place to do something exciting.

Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know by Edwin Tenney Brewster.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.