Quotes About Exploration

Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

Life is like a tasting plate. You have to try everything...at least once.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Time can vanish in exploring these places, like wandering through an art gallery of unexpected forms and colors. Sometimes, I look up from my microscope at the end of an hour, and I'm taken aback at the plainness of the ordinary world, the drab and predictable shapes.

Biologists may make unsuitable dinner conversation, but we are seldom bored.

When botanists go walking the forests and fields looking for plants, we say we are going on a foray. When writers do the same, we should call it a metaphoray, and the land is rich in both. We need them both; scientist and poet Jeffrey Burton Russell writes that "as the sign of a deeper truth, metaphor was close to sacrament. Because the vastness and richness cannot be expressed by the overt sense of a statement alone.

The roots may spread out like a map, but a map only helps if you know where you want to go.

Electron microscopes let us wander the remote universe of our own cells.

A compass: "To find your new path.

What lies beyond our grasp remains unnamed.

Our mental maps had all the landmarks we kids needed:

Like the young of every species they escape the restrictions of their elders and seek out the freedom of the wide-open spaces.

My questions were bigger than science could touch.

In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

I have no intention of being reckless," she said. "I just don't want to waste away in a lab or library while life goes on around me.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. —Robert Louis Stevenson

Northwest in

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Or Nada aventurado, nada adquirido

You shouldn't walk away from something that intrigues you

You think you're in Connecticut, but you're in the jungle.

To have seen Italy without seeing Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything. —GOETHE, ITALIAN JOURNEY