Quotes About Exploration

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

I love science fiction.

What I'd like to suggest in this three-day experiment is that all the important stuff you need to know is happening right outside your window, right there in your neighborhood, right in your own heart.

There is only one rule on this Wild Playground. . . . 'Have fun, my dear; my dear, have fun.'" — HAFIZ, PERSIAN POET

How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us. But we have to ask with an open heart, with no idea of what the answer will be.

I wonder what he sees, a chapter from a book I have never read.

have always needed to know.

Look!" She pointed, a smile on her face. "Wild pigs!" "They have razor-sharp tusks, so don't try to hug one.

He reads up on the science of taste and concludes that the main problem with new foods is simply that they're new. So just having them around should chip away at the eater's innate resistance.

The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an "anti-library," a vast collection of books he had not read, believing that one's personal trove should contain as much of what you don't know as possible. Some

Back in the days of Sugar Pops and roller skates, grown-ups had no clue where their kids were, who they were with, or what the hell they were up to, and that suited kids just fine.

We all love remembering the satisfaction, the joy, the almost giddy exhilaration of seeing the world of letters, and as a consequence the entire world, open up to us.

Books are how cautious kids get to experience a kind of secondhand rebellion, a safe way to go off the rails.

There are never any rules, rights, or wrongs in imagining--- imagining just is.

I viaggi che riescono meglio sono quelli che non si fa a tempo a preparare. Quelli che si affrontano senza una zavorra di libri. In leggerezza. Portandosi dietro nient'altro che l'esperienza dei nomadismi precedenti." – Trans Europa Express –

La mappa dice che vado verso il Nord tra due regioni storiche, la Carelia e la Botnia. Due mondi diversi, parrebbe, ma a destra e sinistra vedo gli stessi laghi e gli stessi nevai

La Cortina di ferro lì a due passi inquietava suo padre ma non lui che nei cartelli con scritto STAATGRENZE vedeva solo l'inizio di un mondo. Semplicemente una linea che Dio aveva disegnato sulla Terra apposta perché lui l'oltrepassasse.

Il libro è come il padre: ti svezza, ti irrobustisce, ti fa crescere dentro la curiosità del mondo ma è anche una trappola che ti spinge ad accontentarti delle meraviglie che contiene. Per partire devi a volte rinnegare il padre, perché non puoi affrontare il mondo col suo peso sulle spalle.

Perché sono venuto qui? Me lo chiedo a ogni partenza, come se fosse stato l'ordine supremo di uno zar, e non la mia personale volontà, a spingermi lontano.

I spent the rest of the night researching this guy.

theirs more than meets the eye when it comes to space, the final front tear.

Le pire, c'est de rater la merveille par peur ou paresse et de rester claquemuré en soi, dans le provincialisme de son identité.

The sea is not a surface. It is, from top to bottom, an abyss. "If you want to cross the sea, sink.

Lire c'est errer. La lecture est l'errance.