Quotes About Exploration

To escape from the little island of the living.

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend "a course of reading." Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To lands where Fairies may be met.

Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind.

Emily Dickinson, the poet, said a beautiful thing. "I dwell in possibility".

Richard Hawley's 'Tonight The Streets Are Ours'. He dusted and polished to The KLF; hoovered to Robyn and Bat For Lashes.

Durante a sua permanência no Mali, voltou a ser ofendido. (Os árabes parecem ter considerado os costumes africanos tão grosseiros como os veriam os exploradores europeus, alguns séculos mais tarde.) Ibn Battuta esperava que os presentes de receção fossem belas vestes e dinheiro; em lugar disso, porém, foi presenteado pelo novo rei com três pães e uma porção de carne de vaca frita, bem como algum iogurte.

Where the remote Bermudas ride,In th' ocean's bosom unespied.

To find, you have to seek. If you have lost your life direction, you probably won't find it between drinks at the local bar. Give yourself a break some time and space to examine what counts for you.

It sounds romantic finding the meaning of life in Tibet, but enlightenment in Tibet is for Tibetans! The meaning of life for most of us is probably in the suburbs.

In space there's no way to ground an electric current. If you have stray voltage, it'll find a path, no matter what.

All of the technology described in this book is either currently being tested on the launch pad or in advance stages of development. This is a story of the very near future.

Put a wildlife camera in your campsite overnight and you'll be surprised and possibly frightened by the amount of nature that comes strolling and slithering through.

if there were no stupidity in the world, we'd all be riding around in flying cars and colonizing Proxima Centauri

you want to get as close to the data as you can get, because it's the questions you don't know to ask that will make all the difference.

the only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. arthur c. clark

My curiosity was more powerful than my fear.

There's an intelligence there, a raging fire of curiosity.

because it's the questions you don't know to ask

it's the questions you don't know to ask that will make all the difference.

Maybe he is interested in some subject, but it isn't a subject we teach here

I never saved anything for the swim back.

They're coming ! All of us waiting for the little green men to probe us or decimate us or turn us into shrubbery.