Quotes About Exploration

The English travel writer Isabel Bird, famous for her cool and detached prose, seemed scarcely able to keep from exclaiming hubba-hubba as she checked out the rugged men she kept encountering on her trip to America in the 1850s:

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Later in life he reported that he had found his fame boring—not because it was immoral or corrupting, but simply because it was exactly the same thing every day. He was looking for something richer, more textured, more varied. So he dropped out.

The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels—that's creative living. The

Have you looked at my books? Glanced at my titles? Fondled my spines?

Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.

For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.

Not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.

And I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.

you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

Scholarship must go on. For good or for evil, but inevitably, in every field.

I flipped through the rest of the pages—when you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.

I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

Not for the first time, Ofelia wondered if humans had thought of anything really new in the past ten thousand years. Had they only wandered the stars because they were tired of their stale jokes and curses?

And as Paksenarrion is there, perhaps she will ride back with me to Fin Panir to see the necklace.

some people were never satisfied by facts they had not themselves discovered.

What a nice neat deep trench,' I said. 'Er - should Nefret be down in it?' 'She thought she saw a skull,' Ramses said. 'You know how she is about bones.

Speculation,' I retorted, 'is never a waste of time. It clears away the deadwood in the thickets of deduction.

Baskerville Expedition House

Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I'd like.

After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life in the universe, and that they were alone. And they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find.

People don't need to be forced to grow. All we need is favorable circumstances: respect, love, honesty, and the space to explore.