Quotes About Exploration

Space was right there, inches beyond my fingertips.

We've hauled a whole lot of weirdness back to civilization, and I'd really like some insight into how two ships and two crews were mysteriously disabled, and what exactly this walker is for.

Somebody intelligent enough for space flight already lives on Grail.

We were moving fast, but at least we were within lightspeed communication range that wasn't longer than a human lifetime.

His pilots. And no, frankly, just his pathway to other worlds, but personal friends, all three of them.

We had been going to change the galaxy together.

In the course of a long unlife, borders might cross as often as one crossed borders.

I'm not a religious person, though I dabbled for a while.

Space: still ridiculously big.

Lifting her head, blinking sweat from her lashes, she studied the vines on her right side, looking for a place with fever thorns.

Murchaud moved slowly along the wall, trailing his hands over the stones nearest the dripping ceiling as if they might whisper something in his ear if properly coaxed.

In reality, there's nothing quite like staring into the most enormous black hole in the galaxy, then flying down its gullet like a gnat with attitude.

My flight led me through twisting companion-ways and chambers vast and tiny and in between, whose purpose was indeterminate because I did not stop to investigate.

What the Man-Moth fears most he must do, although he fails, of course, and falls back scared but quite unhurt.

I'd havenightmares of other islandsstretching away from mine, infinitiesof islands, islands spawning islandslike frogs' eggs turning into polliwogsof islands, knowing that I had to liveon each and every one, eventually,for ages, registering their flora,their fauna, their geography.

Since we do float on an unknown sea, I think we should examine the other floating things that come our way carefully; who knows what may depend on it?

and looked and looked our infant sight away.

What childishness is it that while there's a breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

what the Man-Moth fears most he must do..

No seas muy tímido ni quisquilloso sobre tus acciones. Toda la vida es un experimento. Mientras más experimentos hagas, mejor".

wilderness—wild and brutal and glorious—

No. I want to get out—outside. Out of this flat." "There's a full moon. Have you ever walked beside the Seine in the moonlight?" "No. Have you?" "Not with you. Let's go.