Quotes About Exploration

Dead astronauts were no different than living astronauts. Neither could shed their skin. Neither could ever become part of what they journeyed through. Suits were premade coffins. Space was the grave. Better to think of yourself as dead already. There was freedom in that; liberated the mind to roam quadrants farther than the body.

For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost as hard as it was on priests.

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.

La imaginación es más importante que el conocimiento. El conocimiento es limitado, la imaginación rodea el mundo".

Logica brengt je van A naar B. Verbeelding brengt je overal.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

For example, just a little time feeling hunger and crying or feeling cold and fussing helps an infant/body know his or her own wants. If the caretaker is feeding the infant/body before it is even hungry, it loses contact with its instincts. And if the infant /body is kept from exploring, it does not get used to the world.

O que a gente não conhece é sempre mais atraente do que aquilo que temos.

Em geral, conseguimos encontrar em qualquer coisa que nos deixe contente, se procurarmos o bastante.

There is a middle road in which you don't hold back or push forward too much. That's the road to be explored.

Contudo, o sentimento em relação às terras distantes permanece, e o interesse por elas jamais arrefece. Assim, o homem cavouca, insaciável, em épocas passadas e em culturas desconhecidas. A rigidez da própria existência aumenta, e essas épocas e culturas oferecem o instrumento inesgotável para a transformação.

Quando si viaggia, si prende tutto come viene, lo sdegno rimane a casa. Si osserva, si ascolta, ci si entusiasma per le cose più atroci solo perché sono nuove. I buoni viaggiatori sono gente senza cuore.

Questions outlive the answers.

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

In the word question, there is a beautiful word-quest. I love that word.

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

But where shall I start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I know best, my own. But my country is so very large, I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.

Are you ready? he asks. Just remember, there's nothing to be afraid of, anytime, ever. Life is one hundred percent adventure.

Him and his Life is all adventure stuff. He says, Don't think too hard about it. Just ask yourself this: what would you do if you weren't afraid?

We jumped into water so clear and warm that it was like jumping from air to air. The sand rose up under us and we floated to where it met the sea and walked out of the water like creatures in an act of evolution.

Travel is life-changing. That's the promise made by a thousand websites and magazines, by philosophers and writers down the ages. Mark Twain said it was fatal to prejudice, and Thomas Jefferson said it made you wise. Anais Nin observed that we travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. It's all true. Self-transformation is what I sought and what I found.

Wanderlust, the very strong or irresistible impulse to travel, is adopted untouched from the German, presumably because it couldn't be improved upon. Workarounds like the French passion du voyage don't quite capture the same meaning. Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly; it's something more animal and more fickle - something more like lust. We don't lust after many things in life. We don't need words like worklust or homemakinglust.