Quotes About Exploration

They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.

But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.

If she wanted to enter an otherworld, all she had to do was open a novel.

But rules were never the point. It was finding out who you were.

The only way to understand a river is to jump into it.

Who but a fool would stay in one place and butt her head against the same window time and again?

Meg was a great reader and was never without a book; while walking to school she often had one open in her hands, so engrossed she would sometimes trip while navigating familiar streets.

You walk into the dark and the darkness abides within you.

Never Get Lost Oatmeal Cookies, great for hikes or adventures. Orange You Glad Cake, an orange loaf with buttercream icing, certain to cheer up the day. Sin No More Cinnamon Rolls, delicious and sticky, good for both the well behaved and the unruly.

Close your eyes and listen, then walk twenty paces farther than you thought necessary. Just when you're certain you've lost your way completely, you'll be there. Open your eyes.

But desire can drive you for miles. It can lead you in ways you never would have imagined. A map can be written in ashes, earth, water, air. Take a step and keep walking. Don't be afraid to look back. In the end, every path you choose takes you closer to what you've been searching for all along.

I do not know if he had a name, but I called him North, an appellation I think Beck would have approved of, for it was the name the Dutch called the Hudson River when they first came here, when men set to changing the world in their image, and gave all the wild things their own names.

And yes, he supposed his mother had something to do with that as well, for she'd been the one who had opened that world to him. Don't think you know everything, when you know so little. Stop wasting your time and read this.

Close your eyes and listen, such people advised, then walk twenty paces farther than you thought necessary. Just when you're certain you've lost your way completely, you'll be there. Open your eyes.

In a novel, you'll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You'll find shelter there.

Reading is never wasted time

Read as many books as you can. Choose courage over caution. Take time to visit libraries. Look for light in the darkness.

Reading is the magic key that takes you where you want to be.

Invention comes about when we let it, when we don't mind feeling stupid as we do it— it feels like what children do, it is what children do — when we clear a place for it, become quiet, and wait.

The children ran ahead. A white trail of sand cut through the scrub pine and the yellowing beach grass, rising across the dunes and then dropping down again to the wide white beach that then itself dropped down again, sharply, a kind of cliff, a kind of collapse—the way the children felt their breaths collapse, coming to its edge, to the terrific thunderclap of the ocean.

Michael had slipped beyond the crest of the dune. Jacob was lying flat out now, on his stomach, his little men all before him, and Annie had followed her single soldier up the dune to a grassy patch where the wind whipped her dark hair and the blowing sand made her squint, even

Everybody said to me back home, what do you want to go to Alaska for, and I said, because I've never been there, isn't that a good enough reason?

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.

To dare it; to get away with it, to enter on preposterous adventures in your own, but newly named, skin.