Quotes About Exploration

must be prepared to think outside the box,

however, I thought we might be thinking too narrowly.

If I've learned anything in nearly 12 years now of dragging heavy things around cold places, it is that true, real inspiration and growth only comes from adversity and from challenge, from stepping away from what's comfortable and familiar and stepping out into the unknown… I certainly would implore you to open the door just a little bit and take a look at what's outside.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

In examining the history of cities, I looked for material in markets, souks and bazaars; in swimming pools, stadiums and parks; in street-food stalls, coffee houses and cafés; in shops, malls and department stores. I interrogated paintings, novels, films and songs as much as official records in search of the lived experience of cities and the intensity of their daily life.

How strange it must be, thought Tortoise looking out to sea, to have no edge to one's world. We have a beach; we know the shape of our island and just how far we can go. But Turtle can swim away in any direction and keep going -- her world has no limits, no ending. She can, if she chooses, swim on forever and ever and ever.

Americans are always moving on. It's an old Spanish custom gone astray, A sort of English fever, I believe, Or just a mere desire to take French leave, I couldn't say. I couldn't really say. But, when the whistle blows, they go away. Sometimes there never was a whistle blown, But they don't care, for they can blow their own Whistles of willow-stick and rabbit-bone, Quail-calling through the rain A dozen tunes but only one refrain, "We don't know where we're going, but we're on our way!"

My people are the Hill People. They are the men. I go into the Dead Places but I am not slain. I take the metal from the Dead Places but I am not blasted. I travel upon the god-roads and am not afraid.

The map is what we know And it means nothing. I've seen many maps, Talked to a thousand seamen, in my time, And, in the end, there is but this to say, One ventures as one ventures.

mar donde el pensamiento navega a su antojo sin llegar jamás a ninguna orilla;

He preferred his own judgments and, if the truth were told, his own company, too. That was how he had always been, even as a boy, always by himself, stravaging the fields or the back streets of the Midlands town where he was born, looking for something and never knowing what, hoping to chance on something, anything at all, that would interest or amuse him.

The East is a career.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

Do not fear mistakes.

In the 1770s, when he was in Paris, Benjamin Franklin witnessed the flight of one of the first hot-air balloons. As the balloon soared into the air, someone asked Franklin: "What good is it?" Franklin responded: "What good is a new-born baby?

The Bisy Backson is always going somewhere, somewhere he hasn't been. Anywhere but where he is.

But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.

We wore headlamps and the sight of us bobbing up the hill or zipping perilously down it had the look of busy stars, as if the night sky had come down to join us in our play.

A word about TV: If a television is on, an infant will stare at it. This is not a sign of advanced development. TV entertains at a cost. Young children easily become dependent on the TV for stimulation and lose some of their natural drive to explore. A child with a plastic cup and spoon, a few wooden blocks, and a board book can think up fifty creative ways to use those objects; a child in front of a TV can only do one thing.

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

We must not forget that the most enduring modifications in toys are never the work of adults, whether they be educators, manufacturers or writers, but are the result of children at play.