Quotes About Exploration

They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space. Oh, the thin beast said. Aren't they lonely?

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

Anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

But I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the reader ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the what ifs come to me.

It's a lot simpler to adapt to low gravity, or no atmosphere, or even sandstorms than it is to hustle inhabitants.

When we are writing or painting or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions and opened to a wider world, where colours are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity.

We are all strangers in a strange land.

How can we set limits that are creative and not destructive?

We must not take from our children—or ourselves—the truth that is in the world of the imagination.

We'll never leave the solar system as long as we keep on thinking of time as a river flowing from one direction into the sea.

We tend, today, to want to have a road map of exactly where we are going. We want to know whether or not we have succeeded in everything we do. It's all right to want to know—we wouldn't be human if we didn't—but we also have to understand that a lot of the time we aren't going to know.

I write for the child in everybody,that part of us that is aware and open and courageous. It's also that part of us that isn't afraid to explore the mythical depths, that vast part of ourselves we know little about and which we often fear because we can't manipulate or control it. That's where art is born.

Fiction, in a less direct way, will teach me, teach me things I would never learn had I not opened myself to them in story.

She told them to read a poem every day and think about it, and whenever they went to a new place, to find out about its history and what had made it the place it had become.

What's a Sinbad?

My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

The ability to take a walk from one point to the next point, that is half the battle won.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

There are no travellers now, only tourists. A traveller comes to see a reality that is there already. A tourist comes only to see a reality invented for him, in which he conspires.