Quotes About Exploration

I keep coming back to certain books, and you—to try to find myself again

This pattern of balancing between comfort and exploration of the unknown is how we build our brains

In order to cope with anxiousness, for instance, you need to let certain well-worn paths grow over while you blaze alternate trails.

He and Marie wandered through a square

La Tierra es redonda, pero es la gente que vive en ella la que crea los límites, y hace que sea terriblemente fácil caer al abismo, donde todavía hay monstruos que esperan ansiosos para tragarte.

I compare human life to a large Mansion of Many Apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.

Ever let the fancy roam,Pleasure never is at home.

Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

The past is a foreign country, and we're only tourists. We can't expect to understand the locals, or why they do what they do.

We sketch monsters on the map because we find their presence comforting. They guard the edges of the abyss, and force us to look away; so we can live comfortably in the Known World, at least for a little while.

onism n. the awareness of how little of the world you'll experience

dive deep into things without worrying about making a splash. From slip, to move or fly away in secret + fast, fortified

volander n. the ethereal feeling of looking down at the world through an airplane window, able to catch a glimpse of far-flung places you'd never see in person, free to let your mind wander, trying to imagine what they must feel like down on the ground—the closest you'll ever get to an objective point of view.

crossing the Atlantic under sail remains one of the most fulfilling ways possible to spend a month or so of your precious allotment of time.

I love sailboats. No other man-made object blends design, craftsmanship, passion, and pure optimism the way a sailboat does. With a good sailboat, anything is possible.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

to discover that the moon has something on it and it seems to be intelligently controlled.  When we were in our infancy of development

To be able to turn at will, in a book of your own, to those passages which count for you, is to have your wealth at instant command, and your books become a record of your intellectual adventures...

A quest which began with a strange footprint caught sight of accidentally just off the beaten track became in the end an absorbing adventure along the ways which the imagination follows in dealing with its multifarious materials ? an adventure like a passage through the mazes of a labyrinth, to come out at last upon a wide and open sky.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

Let not men think there is no truth but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read. To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to shew their darkness, but to put out our own eyes.