Quotes About Exploration

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

Powell was first of all a scientist with a deep curiosity about nature, and this curiosity motivated his explorations. Because Powell viewed the landscape and waterscape as a scientist, he realized that the arid West couldn't fit into America's Manifest Destiny dreams, and thus he became a pioneering conservationist.

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

Hold on to your hats, Korea is a land of surprises

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

One question keeps troubling me: Why?. . . The short answer: I don't know. and yet that single word, why, remains the consummate human query. By nature, we're curious. We want to know.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?" THOMAS MERTON

When you're headin' for the border lord, you're bound to cross the line.   KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, «Border Lord»

You set someone straight, you have to go on the crooked road yourself. Sometimes you get lost.

One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.

To probe our past beyond afarensis was to fall into a wormhole— and emerge on the other side 9 million years earlier, in the Miocene epoch.

East Africa, with its natural rock exposures and relatively tolerable climate, has long been the preferred hunting ground of paleoanthropologists. Few have dared venture beyond that comfort zone.

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

The boys reached the woods as night fell. "It's so dark in here I couldn't see Buck if he flew past my nose in a garbage truck," said Casper.

A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean.

Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.

If you're not living a life on the edge you're taking up too much space! ... You learn the most when you're out of your comfort zone!

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.

Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.