Quotes About Exploration

We tramped over, and as we stepped from the thick trees, we all stopped and stared. Then Corey raced forward, arms raised. "It's a road. Oh my God. A road!" He dropped to his knees by the roadside. "Oww." Daniel helped him back to his feet. "The knee is good," I said. "But the knee is not completely healed. Be careful." "It's a road," Corey said, pointing. "A dirt road," Hayley muttered.

It's a road," Corey said, pointing. "A dirt road," Hayley muttered. "So? We've been slogging through the forest for two days. What do you want? A six-lane highway?" "That'd be nice." "Yeah, until you raced out, screaming for help, and got mowed down by a logging truck." He walked into the middle and turned, waving his arms. "It's a road!" I patted his back. "It's a lovely road.

I live in the park," I said. "I'm going to see a lot of wild animals." "Still, mountain lions…Never seen one myself." He slid a sidelong look my way. "Think you could fix that?" Like hell , I thought, but just kept walking.

I'm going higher first," I said, "to look around for Annie." "Good idea." I called down to Daniel to say what we were doing. Rafe was already two branches above me. I scrambled up after him. The faster I went, the faster he did, and I thought it was just coincidence until he grinned down at me.

It's easy not to find out things, if you try hard enough.

Jeremy Mars knows a lot about the planet Mars, although he's never been there. He knows some girls, and yet he doesn't know much about them. He wishes there were books about girls, the way there are books about Mars, that you could observe the orbits and brightness of girls through telescopes without appearing to be perverted.

No one ever built a fort because the world was safe.

Dragons eat the things that they're curious about.

It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they decide not to go

It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go.

pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go.

Un giorno un giornalista mi chiese : <>. No. Le cattedrali sono sempre state affollate da turisti. Nel Medioevo non si chiamavano turisti, erano pellegrini, ma viaggiavano per gli stessi motivi: per vedere il mondo e le sue meraviglie, per ampliare i propri orizzonti, per istruirsi e forse per entrare in contatto con qualcosa di miracoloso, soprannaturale, eterno.

In dog philosophy it is always better to go somewhere than to be left behind.

They were part of an international community of scholars .... There was an atmosphere of feverish excitement among them as they discovered and explored the treasure-house of Arab learning, and they had casually welcomed Jack as a student: they admitted into their circle anyone who understood what they were doing and shared their enthusiasm for it.

pilgrimages or crusades. Even a monk must

Ralph's nostrils filled with a smell he loved: a mixture of sweating horses, wet dogs, leather, and blood. Ralph

En allant à Glastonbury, il avait l'impression

What don't I know?

He set out to walk. The

Durante todo el viaje había pensado en aquel lugar. En

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

I figured, There's no sense doing anything when everything's already been done

How," the moon whispered, "can you be sure it is lost? Until you try to find it?