Quotes About Exploration

That is what a book does. It introduces us to people and places we wouldn't ordinarily know. A good book is a magic gateway into a wider world of wonder, beauty, delight, and adventure. Books are experiences that make us grow, that add something to our inner stature.

Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

I guess I was getting blasé about windwhale-riding.

Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too? Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian stepped forward and examined the lock. Natalie's diary has better security than this. He produced a credit card and slipped it between the latch and the jamb. There was a click, and the door swung wide.

Welcome to the world of Cahills. If it isn't impossible, it isn't worth doing.

This is just our hobby, Dan answered quickly. Instead of collecting stamps, we find creepy old places and poke around.

Worlds are there to be conquered." I was light but I meant what I said. We were living at a time when for the adventurous and imaginative man anything was possible. Bonaparte had inspired, no doubt in a bad way, an entire generation.

He watched her small figure disappear and brought the bag back to his shoulder to continue onward. But before he took another step, he looked at the tall mountain that touched the moon, its peak soaring into the sky as if holding it up. Misty clouds draped softly, but up where the mountain met the moon, Rendi thought he could still see what he expected to be there. There was old Mr. Shan, the Spirit of the Mountain, who sat at the mountain's tip with the book in his lap.

Remember what the Dormouse said, Feed Your Head!

He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footsteps.

Childhood is the writer's bank balance.

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

I am interested in the blueness of the cheese.

Then he allowed himself to strike, like his childhood hero Allan Quatermain, off on that long slow underground stream which bore him on toward the interior of the dark continent where he hoped that he might find a permanent home, in a city where he could be accepted as a citizen, as a citizen without any pledge of faith, not the City of God or Marx, but the city called Peace of Mind.

Mr Tench went out to look for his ether cylinder, into the blazing Mexican sun and the bleaching dust. A few vultures looked down from the

when aeroplanes—strange crates of wood

Africa will always be the Africa of the Victorian atlas, the blank unexplored continent the shape of the human heart.

Hapgood's theory of earth-crust displacement

Despite the wanton destruction during the past 200 years, some outstanding sites have been saved in Louisiana,1 Mississippi,2 Alabama,3 Tennessee,4 Illinois,5 and Ohio,6 and there are also significant sites in Florida,7 Georgia,8 Texas,9 Arkansas,10 Kentucky,11 and Indiana.

We're in the hands of real magicians here, and real magicians know that with symbols. with the right symbols, with the right questions. they can lead you into initiating yourself. Provided, that is, you are a person who asks questions. And, if you are, then the minute you start asking questions about the pyramids you begin to stumble into a whole series of answers which lead you to other questions, and then more answers until finally you initiate yourself… ~Robert Bauval

Jake, we haven't tried for awhile. Tried what? Just to walk out. No. Why haven't we? Because we're in a place where a horse shits rainbows. Right.

play's topical exploration of new technology. In its most celebrated scene, theatre-goers in 1997 perhaps for the first time witnessed an onstage representation of two people communicating through the internet. Although

It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself.

Home is run no more.