Quotes About Exploration

Who wants an everyday path—paved and void of danger—when we can have beasts and shadows and secret flowers and unexpected visits from the feral wolf of our imaginations?

both confidence and consolation. E. O. Wilson wrote: "You start by loving a subject. Birds, probability theory, stars, differential equations, storm fronts, sign language, swallowtail butterflies.… The subject will be your lodestar and give sanctuary in the shifting mental universe.

Whenever I renew a commitment to studying raptors or gulls or crows or the birds in my backyard, more are given, more show themselves. Our efforts are rewarded, our studies are enhanced in experience.

We don't want to be the conquistadors. We want to be Charles Darwin.

Life is for trying. Don't you see?

Si caminamos lo suficiente, alguna vez llegaremos a alguna parte.

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

Then how can you ever know about the beautiful goodness of Mud? How bad it wants to be things. How bad it wants to get on your legs and arms and take your footprints and handprints and how bad it wants you to make it alive! Mud is always ready to play with you. Seriously you should try it!

To follow a wandering mind means having to get lost. Can you stand being lost?

Life is not a straight and endless stairway, the steps of which we tick off as we go smugly on, but a forest of wandering paths

Don't leave your home without a notebook, paper scraps, something to write with. * Don't walk into the world without your eyes and ears focused and open. * Don't make excuses about what you don't have or what you would do if you did, use that energy to 'find a way, make a way.

I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space, and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand, and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.

Many people are happy with things as they are. They are comfortable with what they already know. But if I didn't move outside my comfort level, how would I ever experience anything new, how would I ever learn to see or explore? I believe that each of us has a purpose for being here, that we have certain gifts and certain challenges we need to learn from and fulfill for our lives to have meaning and richness.

With hands that shook, Omri probed into the depths of the chest till he found the box-within-a-box-within-a-box.

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None of us is anyone any more. We all lost who we were. But we can all be something else, and I will be so happy to fly this rocket anywhere you suggest, even though you and Irene called it Nova Swing, which is the cheapest name I ever heard.

If you work long enough and hard enough to understand yourself, you will come to discover that this vast part of your mind, of which you now have little awareness, contains riches beyond imagination.

The truth is that I want It, and the price I must pay is to ask the question again and again and again

That's how the universe keeps going, arii. It makes itself new in every generation that discovers it for the first time.

If there is road in front of me, I will follow it. I don't mind where it goes, as long as it takes me forward.

he best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species.

Aos quinze anos, tudo é infinito.

Colombo não o teve maior, descobrindo a América, e perdoai a banalidade em favor do cabimento; com efeito, há em cada adolescente um mundo encoberto, um almirante e um sol de outubro.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.