Quotes About Exploration

Dar se putea si ca toata acea grija de a pune granite si restrictii sa fi ascuns in el o dorinta de a ajunge dincolo de orice regula, chiar si o singura data si cu orice pret – sa ajunga in fond la capatul unui anumit drum.

Dopo trentadue anni vissuti sul mare, sarebbe sceso a terra, per vedere il mare.

Tutto il resto era ancora nulla. Inventarlo - questo sarebbe stato meraviglioso.

It's amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise methods for learning how the universe works and how its contents evolve with time.

Don't talk about going travelling. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag and it just happens

Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

I'm curious about everything--even things that don't interest me.

Besides, it is no reason because you have not seen an execution at Paris, that you should not see one anywhere else; when you travel, it is to see everything. Think what a figure you will make when you are asked, How do they execute at Rome? and you reply, I do not know!

And it is strange: a few moments after the cars that brought us down drive off, I become aware that already I have discovered something new. Because we do not have a place of our own, nor will have for the next three days, we must invent one. I catch myself, and the eyes of one or two others, searching for a section of the pavement with which we might want to become familiar. We are looking among the concrete slabs for the outline of a home.

But that's exactly the problem, retorted Isabel. We're all stuck with the same tired and trusted ideas. If we refused to entertain the possibility of something radically different, then we'd never make any progress - ever. We'd still be thinking that the sun revolved round the earth.

Everything is possible in love. In the heart of each of us there can be many rooms, and sometimes there are.

You can't go through life saying "I hate mustard" because that is shutting off the possibility of change.

steamships insult the dignity of distance

Yes. Look at the way in which a little boy plays. He prods. He investigates things all around him. He moves them. He tries to push them over. Then look at girls. They touch things gently. They watch them. They don't try to push them about. They…" She searched for the right word. "They cherish them." The

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

He became quiet. It is always a special moment when you raise a submarine's periscope, because that is when you find out where you are. You hope that you have come up in the right place, but you can never be absolutely sure. So if your hands shake a little as the periscope rises above the waves, and if you feel your heart thump a bit more loudly, then that is entirely normal.

Cyberspace is a big country. You can do just about anything anywhere.

We should all have a tree in our childhood...a tree one might explore, a tree from which one might learn how to fall.

But that's what the world is all about, Jamie. Stories. Stories explain everything, bring everything together.

That was the problem with being a philosopher: it was not easy. As a philosopher one could not believe in just one thing; one had to explore the possibility that what one thought was true might be false; that what one wanted to believe might not be what one really should hold to be true. So much for the examined life: how uncomfortable it could be. But at least she knew what she wanted for lunch.

One never gets anywhere unless one leaves

Começa a ler, a mente se solta. Vira as páginas vorazmente; Vê se abrir um mundo diferente.

No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....

We drink the barely cool locally brewed Mosi from the leaky mildew-smelling fridge, keeping an eye out for UFOs, unidentified floating objects, in the bottles.