Quotes About Exploration

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.

Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.

Jess tried going to Terabithia alone, but it was no good. It needed Leslie to make the magic.

could be a magic country like Narnia, and the only way you can get in is by swinging across on this enchanted rope.

The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination.

She wasn't scared of going deep, deep down in a world of no air and little light

Leslie was more than his friend. She was his other, more exciting self - his way to Terabithia and all the worlds beyond.

by water is so much nicer than traveling

Away from home.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

This, I am reminded, is why I love walking in the city, taking to the streets in pursuit of some spontaneous and near-arbitrary objectives. If one knocks oneself out of one's routine- and in so doing knocks others gently out of theirs- then one can now and again create these momentary opportunities to be better than one is

Solvitur Ambulando It is solved by walking

The point of living in the world is just to stay interested

Can I let you in on a remarkable secret? I find that the more ideas I let myself have, the more ideas I have.

This, I am reminded, is why I love walking in the city, taking to the streets in pursuit of some spontaneous and near-arbitrary objective. If one knocks oneself out of one's routine—and in so doing knocks others gently out of theirs—then one can now and again create these momentary opportunities to be better than one is.

I want to go to a café and sit with you. I want you to order something I've never eaten before and tease me about it. And I want to walk, anywhere, nowhere in particular, and for us to disagree.

only way to stimulate the spirit of inquiry is, first to make the person realize that he does not know, and, second, that it is truly possible to know.

I have jumped for a tree, jumped for a raven, jumped for a cougar. I shall jump for the sun!

For there is a new place for those who are willing, who are able, who are strong. We are going west. There is, I believe, a new world somewhere waiting. The moon that shines here will shine there, but here the land is broken and there it is whole.

What she really wanted [...] was [...] to experience every emotion to the limit so she could go beyond every limit.

I have about a hundred cats living in me and all of them are curious

I walked along a highway. I was looking for a place to sit down, for some grass I could walk in, for a wood I could explore. I walked for hours. All land on both sides of the highway, cultivated and wild, was private. I had to keep walking on the highway. I thought that people today when they move move only by car, train, boat, or plane and so move only on roads. They perceive only the roads, the map, the prison. I think it's becoming harder to get off the roads.

Children with loving parents who enjoy them, play with them, and offer guidance and suggestions as they explore their environment will be healthy, emotionally well-adjusted, and psychologically advanced.