Quotes About Exploration

You can see as many towns as you like but it never gets you anywhere. And once you have stopped looking, there you are, exactly where you were before.

Traveling is a great distraction. Everyone has always traveled, the Greeks, the Phoenicians: it has always been so, all through history.

Peu d'hommes aiment longtemps le voyage, ce bris perpétuel de toutes les habitudes, cette secousse sans cesse donnée à tous les préjugés. Mais je travaillais à n'avoir nul préjugé et peu d'habitudes. J'appréciais la profondeur délicieuse des lits, mais aussi le contact et l'odeur de la terre nue, les inégalités de chaque segment de la circonférence du monde.

un Ulisse senz'altra Itaca che quella interiore.

discovering Antarctica, its penguin kings and icy spires...

what thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

The moment that our real "issues" are exposed is simply when two people have the opportunity to go deeper, to explore further, to heal faster, to communicate more sincerely, to be more honest, and to love more truly.

You are about to embark upon a specific journey, and as with everything else in your life, you have two choices: you can play it shallow or you can play it deep.

No sé en qué consiste que soy naturalmente curioso; es un deseo de saberlo todo que nació conmigo, que siento bullir en todas mis venas, y que me obliga más de cuatro veces al día a meterme en rincones excusados por escuchar caprichos ajenos, que luego me proporcionan materia de diversión para aquellos ratos que paso en mi cuarto y a veces en mi cama sin dormir; en ellos recapacito lo que he oído, y río como un loco de los locos que he escuchado.

Bibliomancy? It's defined for us a little further down: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.

I believe in dreams. I believe that every night on the planet everything that is, was and can be is dreamt. I believe that what happens in dreams is no different no less important than what happens in the waking world. I believe that dreams are the closest equvalent present-day mankind has to trime travel.

It seems as though the conclusions are never as interesting as the questions. I mean, they're not what you remember.

You are standing up on the seat of your swing and sailing higher than you really ought to, with that bold, planted stance of a sailor on a billowy sea...You appear to be altogether happy. I remember those first experiments with fundamental things, gravity and light, and what an absolute pleasure they were.

There are pleasures to be found where you would never look for them

My custom has always been to ponder grief; that is, to follow it through ventricle and aorta to find its lurking places.

Touch a limit of your understanding and it falls away, to reveal mystery upon mystery.

Everything always bears looking into, astonishing as that fact is.

Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.

Sometimes I feel like we've just been living on hints. Seeing the world through a keyhole. That's how it would seem to us when we looked back.

To me, going to the unknown is absolutely rule number one.

Kelion?se išlieki jaunas, nes neturi kada senti.

The forest is where you are when your surroundings are not mastered.

Curiosity is the beginning and end of secrets.

Tolerance of ambiguity is a necessary condition for creativity.