Quotes About Exploration

Lulu writes: "When Mother, Mr. Jones and I were walking through those strange, crowded downtown streets, where people were sticking their hands into pickle barrels, pointing to smoked fish, and eating sliced herring, I saw the scene in a whole new way. They weren't buying food: They were finding their way home.

The best antidote for sadness, I have always believed, is tackling something that you don't know how to do.

The more stars in your itinerary, the less likely you are to find the real life of another country.

When something frightens me, it is definitely worth doing.

newer here? There were no dense brambles

He invited me to his apartment in the wee hours one morning and pulled out a set of children's building blocks. It seems he used to ride around and around on the Yamanote Line with them, building castles on the floor of the train.

Å»eby zrozumie? wspóÅ'czesny Å›wiat, nale?y posÅ'ugiwa? siÄ™ ruchomym globusem i przyglÄ…da? siÄ™ scenie, na której ?yjemy, z ró?nych punktów ziemi.

Kusi?o mnie, ?eby zobaczy?, co jest dalej, po drugiej stronie. Zastanawia?em si?, co si? prze?ywa, przechodz?c granic?. Co si? czuje? Co my?li? Musi to by? moment wielkiej emocji, poruszenia, napi?cia. Po tamtej stronie - jak jest? Na pewno - inaczej. Ale co znaczy to - inaczej? Jaki ma wygl?d? Do czego jest podobne? A mo?e jest niepodobne do niczego, co znam, a tym samym niepoj?te, niewyobra?alne.

To understand our world, we must use a revolving globe and look at the earth from various vantage points.

Así, mis viajes cobraron una segunda dimensión: viajé simultáneamente en el tiempo a la Grecia antigua, a Persia, a la tierra de los escitas) y en el espacio (mi labor cotidiana en Africa, en Asia, en América Latina). El pasado se incorporaba al presente, confluyendo los dos tiempos en el ininterrumpido flujo de la historia

Today, nothing remains of these gradations. Air travel tears us violently out of snow and cold and hurls us that very same day into the blaze of the tropics.

Aki meg akarja érteni Afrikát, az olvasson Shakespeare-t.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.

The truth was, she couldn't stand to let such an opportunity pass; she wanted to see what was behind the closed door, because it was there. Because leaving it unopened would get under her skin.

Expect the unexpected, that was the S.T.A.R.S. motto—although

Take one thing with another, there are few places I know better than the heart of Africa. Set me down in Bechuanaland or the Cameroons and I will find my way home with less difficulty than I would from Rittenhouse Square or Boylston Street. My

from that valley near the Tetons, over past the Wind River

pedal cars, so it went quickly. I was at my Order?s new chapter house on our mission farm at Drumheller, and I carried it on snowshoes and skis over the mountain passes and down to Barony Vernon in the Okanogan country. Then by horse and rail to the Columbia and Portland. I came all the way myself rather than handing

Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu: All our dream-worlds may come true. Fairy lands are fearsome too. As I wander far from view Read, and bring me home to you.

If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse.

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart.

Every quest takes places in both the sphere of the actual, which is what maps reveal to us, and in the sphere of the symbolic, for which the only maps are the unseen ones in our heads.