Quotes About Exploration

I love how books can transport you to another place. You get caught up in the characters' lives, and they become your friends. I guess I want to share my love of reading with others.

Denise Kiernan

noted naturalist and Sierra Club cofounder John Muir,

I like to findwhat's not foundat once, but lieswithin something of another naturein repose, distinct.

Looking, Walking, Being I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, Sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one. The eyes Dig and burrow in the world. They touch Fanfare, howl, madrigal, clamor. World and the past of it, Not only Visible present, solid and shadow That looks at one looking. And language? Rhythms Of echo and interruption? That's A way of breathing, breathing to sustain Looking, Walking and looking, Through the world, In it.

I wanted to know all the bones in your spine, all the pores of your skin, tendrils of body hair. To let all of my skin, my hands, ankles, shoulders, breasts, even my shadow, be forever imprinted with whatever of you is forever unknown of me.

She didn't read to show off at book groups or for discussion. She never made a show of her erudition. She just liked to be lost.

So I did indeed set out, as John Steinbeck says in his gavels with Charley, "not to instruct others but to inform myself.

I'm just some fingers resting lightly on a cursor as it slides magically around a kind of Ouija board.

The light still shone in the dark, a beacon, drawing him forward to the edge of the map, the place where the cartographer might mark "here there be dragons.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

We were born to be free, to expand our horizons by going where we have never gone before, and not to hang out in the relative comfort and safety of the nest, the known. There is a place within us that is courageous beyond our human understanding; it yearns to explore beyond the boundaries of our daily life.

To learn more, we have to be willing to leave the zone of the known and step into the void.

are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. —BUDDHA

Make me laugh. Make me cry. Tell me my place in the world. Lift me out of my skin and place me in another. Show me places I have never visited and carry me to the ends of time and space. Give my demons names and help me to confront them. Demonstrate for me possibilities I've never thought of and present me with heroes who will give me courage and hope. Ease my sorrows and increase my joy. Teach me compassion. Entertain and enchant and enlighten me. Tell me a story.

Art isn't the answer. It's another way of asking the question.

El lado negativo de aventurarse en aguas desconocidas, no es en absoluto tan desastroso como no salir de la orilla, y esperando interminablemente para su barco para llegar a su rescate. Tener una oportunidad, y saltar en aguas desconocidas para reinventar su potental y fortalecer su auto.

La base la plus importante de la créativité et de l'inventivité est, à mon avis, ne jamais avoir peur d'échouer. (The most important basis of Creativity and Inventiveness is, IMHO, never being afraid to fail.) - Deo

Never Fear Innovating. Fear Never Innovating.

One cannot really discover new oceans unless and until she/he dares to lose sight of the shore, the most familiar territory and the comfort zone.

Only when you start thinking outside-the-box, the box goes away, and the doors of opportunity are opened wide than ever before. Think Outside-the-box!

Profitez du Voyage de la Vie. Enjoy the Journey of Life.

The day you dare to leave the well-trodden path, the world will begin to notice your footprints.

The downside of venturing into uncharted waters is not at all as disastrous as not leaving the shore, and waiting endlessly for your boat to arrive for your rescue. Take a chance, and leap into unknown waters to reinvent your potental and strengthen your self.