Quotes About Exploration

Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even kindness, tasting one another in clumsly attempts to steal pleasure before they could be hurt or hated.

As I look around the quiet room, I see a thousand leather covers like doorways into worlds unknown.

Look, he even tried getting at the rope." Carl studied the scene. "With all the rodents

Think of it: the worlds in this world.

Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.

I struggled to sit up, feeling stiff, but rested. "Where?" "Ted's house." I sat up straighter. Ted's house? Edward's house. I was finally going to get to see where Edward lived. I was going to snoop and strip some of his mystery away. If I didn't get killed, finding out Edward's secrets would make the entire trip worthwhile. If I did get killed, I'd come back and haunt Edward, see if I could make him see ghosts after all.

You know, we should make a note of all the mean things Elisa says to us in Italian. That way, we'll learn all the best swearwords.

If the US Open was a two-week trip to Ibiza, Wimbledon was a meditative hike through a scenic national park.

From far across the sea I come, Through fire, frost,and blazing sun, That you might, with your own fair hand, Enjoy the bounties of my land - Emma Delagardie and Augustus Whittlesby Americanus, A masque in three parts

Oh, no," said Mr. Fitzhugh blithely, immune to nuance. "We're here to see the ruins." Lady Vaughn looked innocently up at her husband. "Isn't that what you said, Vaughn?

Oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Our planet has been misnamed; it is the ocean planet.

Magellan's thirst for glory, under cover of religious zeal, led him fatally astray.

The next day, Magellan gave the order to weigh anchor. The ships fired a salvo of cannon that reverberated among the splendid dark green mountains, gray ravines, and azure glaciers of the strait, and the armada set sail once again, heading west, always west.

Laurence Bergreen

Europeans knew little about the ocean beyond latitude 27°N, marked by Cape Bojador in West Africa.

because they knew the sea better than they knew land;

home, they knew the dreary routines life held in store for them, whereas at sea anything could happen;

To such, however, as do not choose to go so far back into these things, I can give no better advice, than that they skip over the remaining parts of this chapter; for I declare before-hand, 'tis wrote only for the curious and inquisitive.

Endless is the search of truth.

I love the process of learning a thing. It's doing a thing I find so boring.

Who do I look like, Nancy freaking Drew?

This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.

I'm learning how to taste everything.

Where did you live before you came here? I asked. The moon, he said smoothly. We left because the place had no atmosphere.