Quotes About Exploration

Be open to a wide range of new experiences. The more lines you have in the water, the greater the possibility of catching something remarkable.

Living on one's own is not always ideal - but then, neither is marriage. The mated format is charted territory. Those venturing into singlehood are the Lewis and Clarks of a pioneering lifestyle with few maps, unexpected ambushes, and an infinity of adventures. Therein lies its glory!

many of us cower at the edge of that psychological boundary and abort our soul's adventure.

Whether it's that first mark with a brush on a canvas or pencil to paper, boldly make it and then let yourself free-fall. Art creates art.

Wings unclipped, there was only me playing with empty space that kneeled to my will.

Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them with the unexpected, the irrelevant, the odd and the unexplainable.

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

The brain] is just a landscape...We're Lewis and Clark. We have no idea what's going on in most of that terrain. It's wilderness, I'm telling you. -Dr. David Sutton

Lo scrittore è obbligato a guardare sotto ogni pietra. Può e dovrebbe rifiutare alcuni comportamenti o scelte nella sua vita personale. Ma non può fare a meno di contemplare l'intero spettro della condizione umana.

Two classical and archetypal structures. . . . the stranger comes to town and the journey [Sharon Creech, "Leaping Off the Porch"].

Heavy burdens fell away so easily when one is traveling.

We walk towards nowhere, one foot in front of the other.

My travels inevitably begin with copious research and planning. I began this kind of planning long ago when I was very young and anxious to hit the road. Hours were spent pouring over junior encyclopedias memorizing the names of exotic-sounding cities---Addis, Ababa, Samarkand, Damascus. Lengthy lists were written detailing the most minute necessities: three pairs of socks, two pencils. spare batteries, rope.

Imagination needs to be fed.

I've gone to look for myself. If i should return before I get back, keep me here

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

You are all pulling light, which is data and information, onto the planet, and as you do this you create new pathways for consciousness to explore without even saying a word.

In case you haven't noticed, the primary occupation of little girls is sitting still. Stop fidgeting, behave yourself, act like a lady, don't, don't don't --that's what little girls hear the most. But my mother never said those words to me. She said Go! Do! Sing!

It was odd to think that he himself had once been on the threshold of that kind of life and that he had thrown it all away, as it were, to go out to Africa and study the ways of a so-called primitive tribe. For really, when one came to consider it, what could be more primitive than the rigid ceremonial of launching a debutante on the marriage market?

The man saw no adventure, no challenge, no conquest, no sweat, and no sense of accomplishment in what we were about to do – only stupidity. There was no way to explain to him our need to explore, to find out about the rest of the world, and to discover and develop ingenuity, endurance, and self-reliance – that pioneer spirit that had been buried under the comforts of modern society.

By nature and avocation, Charlotte looked for trouble.

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.