Quotes About Exploration

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.

Wild Cat Island

It was like exploring a place that you have seen in a dream, where everything is just where you expect it and yet everything is a surprise.

P...U...D...D...I...N...G Pudding, said Roger. They've kept some for us. She hasn't finished the word, said Dick. Titty was reading steadily on. H...E...A...D...S...End of word

Arthur Rimbaud

Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces of his. He made her feel as though the world belonged to them- as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined.

To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

I soon learned that Dandakaranya, the forest I was about to enter, was full of people who had many names and fluid identities. It was like balm to me, that idea. How lovely not to be stuck with yourself, to become someone else for a while.

Dark of Heartness tiptoed into the Heart of Darkness.

As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and thought.

Ja vi?a grib?tu, lai piepild?s k?da maza v?l?šan?s, t? b?tu- Nezin?t. Nezin?t, ko katra diena vi?ai sniegs. Nezin?t, kur vi?a b?s r?t, n?kamaj? m?nes? vai gad?. P?c desmit gadiem. Nezin?t, k? vi?as ce?š pagriez?sies un kas gaida aiz l?kuma.

To understand history," Chacko said, "we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

Don't let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn't. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.

My third answer for becoming a positive deviant: Count something. Regardless of what one ultimately does in medicine—or outside medicine, for that matter—one should be a scientist in the world....If you count something you find interesting, you will learn something interesting.

I tried not to seem like a kid who'd just been offered a chance to go up to the front of the plane and see the cockpit. Sure, I said. That sounds neat.

The companies' most effective tactic, however, was simply to put out the goods and let surgeons play.

But the truth of the matter is that it tends to raise as many questions as it answers.

and he never considered the idea.

He and Segal conferred and thought of one other thing they could try

In many the entry point is never found at all.)

I asked him if I could have a look around.

At the Serima Mission, in Victoria Province, I am shown around by an enchantingly pretty African nun called Sister Balbina...She cannot be more than 25, and has the most delightful figure. How poignant that she should have dedicated her life in this way. When we come to the bell tower, I ask her to climb up the ladder in front of me.It was rather a caddish request, I suppose, but I had often wondered. Black petticoats and pink knickers. To think I had to come all this way to find out.

places do not change so much as what we seek in them