Quotes About Exploration

And the last thing to know about death is that the death of the body is the start of an adventure.

To be human is to be lost in the woods.

those who are willing to enter the woods of self-examination in order to retrieve what was never really lost.

They are I-don't-know-it-alls. They are not afraid to look dumb or make mistakes. Because of that, they go places others won't and try things others don't. That is where the new discoveries are lurking. "So

What is keeping you from feeling the rapture? I can assure you, you won't find the answer in a lighted room. What stands between you and a full-bodied life can be found only in the shadows.

on the tiny counter. "Playing? If that's what you

Ellen chopped the wood at the woodpile in the yard and she carried water from an old well in the rear of the pasture. She was afraid to pass beyond the ways allotted to her by her labours, and so the region beyond the pond stood off as a picture, unexplored

When you entered the cavern of another language, you could leave certain people behind, for they had no interest in following you in. You could, by way of translation, emerge from the cavern and share your adventures with them. You didn't have to be an intellectual in a black beret smoking clove cigarettes to be a translator, not at all. You could become one in your blue flannel pajamas, your face smeared with Clearsil. You did.

Are you committed to having a really strange life?" She laughed. "Probably. What do you mean?

Cuando mi piel recuperó un tono uniforme, dormí con otro hombre y descubrí, al ver mis manos torpemente tiradas en la sábana a ambos lados de mi cuerpo, que había olvidado qué hacer con ellas.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

she loved to stand in the middle of a market square, or a park, or a beach and take in the smells and the sounds of a world that was completely new to her. she loved being an anonymous extra in a crowd scene, like some real-life where's waldo - a tiny face, wide-eyed with wonder, in a vast, ever-changing picture.

I love books. I love that moment when you can open one and sink into it. You can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be.

I love books! I love that moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world,into a story that's way more interesting than yours ever will be

But the moral of the tale is that the real way to see New Mexico is simply to go off on a horse, and then on and on, rejoicing that nobody knows or cares whether you ever come back, taking adventure and beauty and night's lodging as they come.

Elizabeth Singer Hunt

I loved New York for this gift of endless encounters.

I need to say: This is the question that has made me a writer; always that deep desire to know what it feels like to be a different person.

like I was a fish swimming round and round and then I bumped into this rock.

The World to Come

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.