Quotes About Exploration

for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine

It is always ourselves we find in the seas.

dead says come with me he says(andwhyevernot)into the round well and see the kitten and the penny and the jackknife and the rosebug and you say Sure you say (like that) sure i'll come with you you say for i like kittens i do and jackknives i do and pennies i do and rosebugs i do

let's go said he not too far said she what's too far said he where you are said she

may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple

Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes dumb. His toe scuffs a soft storm of sand, he kneels and his arms spread in pantomimic celebration, the immigrant, as in every moment of his life, arriving eternally on the shore of his Self.

The bad news is that if we do in fact get off the earth we will contaminate the rest of the universe with our moral insufficiency.

And she understood as I did that when you sat down and put your hands on the keys, it was not just a piano in front of you, it was a universe.

19. I wrote in my notebook that even if all the possible scientific questions are answered, our problem is still not touched at all.

Only a fool would call anywhere in this land a place and everywhere else a journey to it.

You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

I keep telling you that often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do.

Angel became part of Claudia's story about finding herself, about how the greatest adventure lies not in running away but in looking inside, and the greatest discovery is not in finding out who made a statue but in finding out what makes you.

Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere. To a large place, a comfortable place, an indoor place, and preferably a beautiful place. And that's why she decided upon the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights but you can make the whole trip that way.

Change depends on the questions we ask. Always providing we are willing to ask them. And a t a certain point, I set out to find those questions.

While trying to find yourself in things, you may end up losing yourself in things.

I try to find myself in things but never quite make it and end up losing myself in them.

empiece por concentrar su atención en el campo de energía interior de su cuerpo. Sienta el cuerpo desde dentro. Esto también lo pondrá en contacto con sus emociones. Exploraremos esto con más detalle más adelante.

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The savageness is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.

There's an old and honored tradition in exploration literature that you don't air your dirty laundry in print. Whatever bickering, name-calling, grudge nursing, and dark funks really took place on the expedition, they're nobody else's business.

Cuando llegamos a la Luna, ese fue el momento en que Dios debió haber venido y decir hola. Porque si inventas algunas criaturas, los pones en azul y llegan al gris, es el jodido momento de aparecer y decir bien hecho.