Quotes About Exploration

Get out there and see your state. Go to museums and parks and historic sites. Get yourselves some culture so that when you do leave you can take it.

I thought of the pieces of me I'd left behind, a piece here, a piece there, scattered like bread crumbs. How much of me was left?

I have a section for New Nameless Web Magazine.

When we're in the act of wandering, we need to be present, not watching though a lens.

Don't you want to know where I'd go if I could?" Not really, I think. " Where would you go if you could go anywhere?" It comes out bitchier than I mean for it to. He leans forward over the handlebars, eyes on me. "I'd go to Hoosier Hill with a beautiful girl.

Finch,April 3. "Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!" I sign my name and write: "Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way!

We alternate choosing places to go, but we also have to be willing to go where the road takes us. This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life. But absolutely, unconditionally, resolutely nothing ordinary.

I think I've got a map in my car that wants to be used, and I think there are places we can go that need to be seen. Maybe no one else will ever visit them and appreciate them or take the time to think they're important, but maybe even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they can mean something to us.

We alternate choosing places to go, but we also have to be willing to go where the road takes us. This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life. But absolutely, unconditionally, resolutely nothing ordinary. c)

This is what i need, i think. A change of scenery.

Hope you're keeping the dust out of your eyes and your feet off the ground.

A good investigator doesn't know what he's looking for till he sees it.

When you see a good move, look for a better one

Quand les amoureux s'embrassent sur les joues, c'est qu'ils tâtonnent et cherchent les lèvres.

It's easy to get stuck in one track. When something tosses you out of it, you begin to realize there's scenery you haven't noticed.

Emily Brightwell

I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into...it is as much as you can expect from a poor man's daughter.

I'll walk, but not in old heroic traces, And not in paths of high morality, And not among the half-distinguished faces, The clouded forms of long-past history. I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side.

my companion is impatient and proposes that we should appropriate the dairy woman's cloak, and have a scamper on the moors, under its shelter.

Qual seria o sentido da minha existência, se eu ficasse restrita ao que existe aqui?

Who of us knows just why we do what we do, much less another's whys, or what we're after? Art is not like that; cut and dried and hit-at like a bull's eye and done for a reason and explained away by this or that motive. It's climbing and striving for something always beyond.

They already realized possibilities that we couldn't see. They heard the music and designed inner worlds out of what they dreamed....

To shut your eyes is to travel.