Quotes About Exploration

Distance is inspiration's best hearting.

A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.

There is no better high than discovery.

A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

And no sooner had Cap been commanded, if she valued her safety, not to cross the water or climb the precipice than, as a natural consequence, she began to wonder what was in the valley behind the mountain and what might be in the woods across the river. And she longed, above all things, to explore and find out for herself.

listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go

It's a bad idea to try to prevent people from knowing their own history. If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.

Los griegos decían que el asombro es el principio del conocimiento, y si dejamos de asombrarnos corremos el riesgo de dejar de conocer.

Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.

Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere.

O que torna os maus poetas ainda piores é o facto de apenas lerem poetas (tal como os maus filósofos apenas lêem filósofos), quando eles tirariam um proveito bem maior de um livro de botânica ou de geologia. Só nos enriquecemos se frequentarmos disciplinas afastadas da nossa. Isto só é verdade, claro está, nos domínios em que grassa o eu.

We move between two darknesses.

The ends of the earth, the depths of the sea, the darkness of time, you have chosen all three.

Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking? Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.

Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!

But this is something new!' said Mrs. Munt, who collected new ideas as a squirrel collects nuts, and was especially attracted by those that are portable.

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.

We residents sometimes pity you poor tourists not a little - handed about like a parcel of goods from Venice to Florence, from Florence to Rome, living herded together in pensions or hotels, quite unconscious of anything that is outside Baedeker, their one anxiety to get 'done' and 'through' and go somewhere else. The result is they mix up towns, rivers, palaces in one inextricable whirl.

The world is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.

Oh, hang it all! what's the good—I mean, the good of living in a room for ever? There one goes on day after day, same old game, same up and down to town, until you forget there is any other game. You ought to see once in a way what's going on outside, if it's only nothing particular after all.