Quotes About Exploration

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Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.

There was nothing more promising than the first stage of a new expedition. Everything was possible in that moment; there was no past, no future, only that hollow in time when everything paused.

I know very little, but I am curious about a good deal.

I am usually an excellent sleeper. My ability to take my rest no matter how insalubrious the circumstances—along with a sound stomach and excellent legs—accounts for the success of my travels through varied and demanding parts of the world.

And when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. —Closed Path Rabindranath Tagore

Have you ever turned over a stone just to watch the nasty things wriggling underneath?" "I think every child has." His mouth thinned into a cruel smile. "I am no longer a child. There's a baser word for what I like to do. Let us simply say that kicking over this particular stone amuses me." "Then let us hope you do not get stung.

knew that he had led a failed expedition to the jungles of the Amazon, an expedition that had cost him his marriage and his honor as well as his career as a rising star in the firmament of natural history.

You don't believe the public should have access to the accumulation of human knowledge? To the accomplishment of art and exploration?

One seldom finds something is one never actually looks for it. A Curious Beginning

One seldom finds something if one never actually looks for it. Deanna Raybourne, A Curious Beginning

I'm more of a one-time reader. There are so many good books waiting to be read, I'll never go back and read one twice.

There are so many good books waiting to be read, I'll never go back and read one twice.

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

I liked the idea of bouncy, open-air Jeeps and I liked the outfits with all the pockets, only I didn't really want to live in Africa and be shot by poachers/get malaria/get stabbed to death.

Running away can also be running to.

There's a Reasonable Explanation' is definitely a place you can go, a destination.

Don't you wish you could live inside a book sometimes?" "All the time.

We have longer ways to go," Annabelle would say in a pro-found Kerouac voice. "No matter," Kat would answer. "The road is life.

The drive to know fuels the desire to seek.

Start from your heart. The greatest journeys begin on the inside.

So, go. Travel far. Travel courageously. Travel young.

You are only limited by your own imagination

Every day is a journey.