Quotes About Exploration

Bad weather doesn't give you ideas about going to visit a flower garden.

we are free to go out in search of fulfillment, but fear makes us look for all kinds of reasons not to.

Courage makes people face the unknown and find their own paths.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

They both stared at the microscope as if it might hop off the bench and chase them around the room.

She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.

The tourist's paradox: how to find somewhere that's free of people exactly like us.

I had an infinite number of questions and would have been happy for her to recount her life in real time, would have been happy to walk on past Whitechapel and Limehouse into Essex and the estuary and on into the sea if she'd wanted to.

But now the train had finally begun to move, and Albie had switched the fearless truth-telling eye of his camera lens from his untied laces to the walls of the tunnels under east London, because you can never have enough pictures of dirty concrete.

When we were ready we would take a walk, perhaps down to La Boqueria, the food market that we both loved

You feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay… That's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.

Consider the future, Moldenke. Do you imagine we'll ever get there?

The questions produced before studying the topic turned out to be much deeper and more exciting. It seemed that the formal study of the topic had quenched students' sense of its mystery.

The song of the dodo, if it had one, is forever unknowable because no human from whom we have testimony ever took the trouble to sit in the Mauritian forest and listen.

know that walking into a small woodlot," he wrote, "is riskier than walking into a nearby large, extensive forest.

Onward we climb. The upper slope is a crust of friable lava. It crunches like peanut brittle beneath our steps.

But here's a bit of spoilsport historical reality: It wasn't the finches that inspired Darwin, it was the Mockingbirds.

Ecological circumstance provides opportunity for spillover. Evolution seizes opportunity, explores possibilities, and helps convert spillovers to pandemics.

He hoped these students would learn how to be at home in the desert, not how to conquer it; and he hoped that, in the process, they might discover the spiritual value of quietude.

wildly speculative.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

You've asked for my opinion and I've given it. There is absolutely no credible evidence, in Massachusetts or elsewhere, of any pre-Columbus exploration of America other than the Viking settlement in Newfoundland.

Whitman wrote articles on almost every topic, storing up images and impressions that would later be useful to him as a poet.