Quotes About Exploration

You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

Yes. Happiness, anxiety, sadness, anger and disgust. It's none of those. So it might be . . . wonder.

animals like bears or cougars. It was a marvel they hadn't yet seen anything more vicious

the world, that unknown utopia, a name: he labeled it "America.

There were about three million people on that island, land of mountains, when Columbus landed; fifty years later, there were only five hundred; everyone else had died, their songs unsung.

Meanwhile, we stooped and picked the sharp plants

Books are the tickets to faraway places. To adventure and friends everywhere; and the best part is that you can travel the world without even leaving your chair.

By thinking about what we don't yet know, we can think about how we can best find out. It is the many questions we have asked over the course of our human history that have given us an ever-more-accurate picture of the world we know and love.

Jim Al-Khalili

I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.

The Christopher Columbus Aware: This award goes to those who, like good old Chris, when they set out to do something, don't know where they are going; neither do they know how to get there. When they arrive, they don't know where they are, and when they return, they don't know where they've been.

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.

I could no longer pull wands, potions, and light sabers out of books, but when it came to research, give me a well-stocked library and I was a goddamned Merlin.

He found it peculiar the way these adventurers thought anything they found was "rightfully" theirs. Why couldn't they come out and admit they were stealing from the monsters?

Something weird wants to kill us? Cool! Where did it come from, and how does it work?

Kumar tossed the grate aside and shone a light down

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.… It is enough that I am surrounded by beauty." Ruess scaled remote canyons,

show excitement about how things work, do things with your children, and become excited about what they and you discover, and you will probably raise self-motivated, curious, and creative children.

Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.