Quotes About Exploration

Life is a journey without reliable tour guides. You made plans and then you got distracted and took detours that proved to be dull, disastrous, or wonderful, or a combination of all three. – Josie Navarre (heroine)

thought had been to escape

My husband and I love to travel, we say we want to cover the earth before the earth covers us!

When in doubt, read books. Educate yourself. Education has always saved me Edward. Learn about the mysteries.

And in part because there are so many kids, they run the schools like factories, or, dare I say, jails. You're put in lines, moved when the bells ring, allowed to run around in a high-fenced yard once a day. None of this is conducive to deep thinking or creativity. You start to go deep into a subject, and a bell rings to pull you out of it.

Her face was a map I'd like to trace. I'd love to see where it would take me. And I'd love to see where she had been.

You can never know enough about your characters." —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

They went in a spirit of scientific enquiry, but they could not quite manage to be open-minded; for once on the mountain, strange fears began to assail them. Behind their bravely rational and humanist front, they were still men of the Middle Ages, and their climb became a metaphor for the struggle of Renaissance Europe to get past old ghosts.

This stretching of self beyond stretchable boundaries, this glory of being where few have stood, of listening and seeing, of feeling the sun and the rock, somehow matters very much. The exhilaration is worth every bit of the discomfort and duress. I have pushed through discomfort to another level of being. I love being here, shot through with sunlight, incandescing it outward as I receive it inward. I feel an outer glory like an aura or a nimbus

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The child should never be required to learn the name of anything in the nature-study work; but the name should be used so often and so naturally in his presence, that he will learn it without being conscious of the process

You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.

To understand her," I say, "you have to understand what she was trying to do. Dora was ... a verb.

with several steep gables, and it took her several minutes to look at every

Something in her demanded victimization and terror, so she corrupted my dreams, led me into dark places I had no wish to explore. It was no longer clear to me which of us was the victim. Perhaps we were victims of one another.

Courage is saying, Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else.

What hand unseen Impells me onward through the glowing orbs Of habitable nature, far remote, To the dread confines of eternal night, To solitudes of vast unpeopled space, To deserts of creation, wide and wild; Where embryo systems and unkindled suns Sleep in the womb of chaos?

You find happiness where you find it.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

I didn't write. I just wandered about.' Martha Gelhorn, novelist and journalist

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.