Quotes About Exploration

That's the problem with going into the world, isn't it? You actually have to face things you find you don't want to know.

I went out into the open country running fast, just to feel myself do it.

Away in the distance I could see the cloud-softened crags of Mount Kenya and thought of how wonderful it would be to run there, a hundred miles away.

Swahili phrase he'd challenged me with years before, "A new thing is good, though it be a sore place.

us, trailed by Cockie Birkbeck and a slight, dark-haired fellow who wasn't a bit like Bror Blixen. He turned out to be her husband, Ben. If

I don't exactly know, but it feels important to go there. It feels important to go everywhere one can and see all there is to see and try to understand it. Everything's changing so fast. I want to believe in something while there's still time. I want to tell the truth, even when it's difficult. And I want to find the story I'm meant to write.

would be two days traveling, at least, and then he'd be

I did finally make it to Paris, in June of 2010. And though most tourists go straight to the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre, or to Notre-Dame Cathedral, I headed for the chipped blue door of 74 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, Hadley and Ernest's first apartment in the Latin Quarter. The

Twende tu," she called out in Swahili as she buckled her helmet. I am going.

For better for for worse I was born a traveler, wanting to go everywhere and see everything.

the boy, who

The small child walks to develop his powers, he is building up his being. He goes slowly. He has neither rhythmic step nor goal. But things around him allure him and urge him forward.

Practical-life activities keep fifteen-month-olds at the leading edge of their skill development, building their intelligence, deepening their concentration, and giving them a new appreciation of their expanding capabilities. In

Montessori stated that nothing should be given to the brain that is not first given to the hand. By this she meant that abstract ideas and information of every possible kind should be given to the young child first in concrete form to be held, discovered, and explored.

In addition to doing practical-life activities at home, many children by the time they are eighteen months old are ready to spend three hours a morning doing these (and other activities) in a setting outside their own home.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.

Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up 'cause they're looking for ideas.

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things.

My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of 'play,' number one, was 'engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,' and number two was 'gambling.' And I realize I do both when I'm designing.

Step so far outside of your comfort zone that you can't find your way back.

He knew that he did not play music so much as walk into it, as if into a palace of great riches, with rooms opening into other rooms, which opened into still other rooms, and in these rooms were courtyards and fountains with passageways to yet more mysterious spaces of melody

It was in this way he asked people to enter another realm of the mind. Places far away, and mysterious, brought to them by details which they did not understand but which entranced them.