Quotes About Exploration

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

I've traveled far and wide, always alone, so therefore I've never been in Cahoots.

On a shrunken planet where nearly every mountain bears bootprints and every mile of river has been run, being 'first' tends to require creative task definition" (111).

Grace's boyfriend's parties became more important than trying to find ourselves. Maybe it's because we became afraid of what we'd find.

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

I am reading The Lord of the Rings . I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much like going on a journey. When I put it down to this, I feel as if I am also waiting with Pippin for the echoes of that stone down the well.

There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isn't all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. I'd like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin.

Robert Heinlein says in Have Spacesuit, Will Travel that the only things worth studying are history, languages, and science. Actually, he adds maths, but honestly they left out the mathematical part of my brain.

When I got to Aberdare, I got off and walked up the cwm to the ruins we call Osgiliath.

Give me the good for which I do not know to ask,

A tal que, enfim, veio o dia de se sair, guerreiramente, por vales e montes, a gente toda.

E' venuto scendendo il Rio Paracatè su una zattera di burití...

Sertão - si dice -, se uno lo va cercando non lo trova mai. Di colpo, di per sé, quando la gente non se l'aspetta, il sertão viene.

Montagne che uno va salendo, per scoprire altre montagne. Ci sono cose di tutti i generi. Vivendo, s'impara; ma quel che s'impara, di più, è solo a fare altre e maggiori domande.

Então eu acho que se deve experimentar, é uma burrice não experimentar. Quem não usa nada, nem secretamente, é um perigoso louco que possivelmente mataria alguém.

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a glorious voyage.

Ãœberall ist Wunderland, Ãœberall ist Leben

Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.