Quotes About Exploration

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just to satisfy my curiosity

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity - because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity -- because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

A walk with a two-year-old is very Zen; it is not about the end but the journey. He needs to pet the dog someone is walking; to roll down the slight incline to the church basement, and then roll again, and again, and again; to remind me of the place where the wasps (he calls them bees) live, then zoom past it.

Marc Aronson

All life is an experiment.

New points of view are not, as a rule, discovered in territory that is already known, but in out-of-the way places that may even be avoided because of their bad name. Carl Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausual Connecting Principle

For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one most travelled by. It was littered with corpses, as such roads are. But as you will have noticed, my own corpse is not among them.

In my dreams of this city I am always lost.

Being able to read and write did not provide answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others.

So much better to travel than to arrive.

Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.

She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are: Where have you been all my life? they ask. Where have I been all my life? she replies.

Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.

Forbidden things are open to the imagination.

It's strange to remember how we used to think, as if everything were available to us, as if there were no contingencies, no boundaries; as if we were free to shape and reshape forever the everexpanding perimeters of our lives.

Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers.

like a cat that crawls onto the page when you're trying to read.

It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam.