Quotes About Exploration

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.

A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.

In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.

The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn't, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

That's why I don't rehearse a lot and why I shoot a lot immediately. I have ideas of where I'd like to take the character, but we both end up going together.

I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow.

What a dull and unadventurous life this is sometimes.

Curiosity demands satisfaction.

believe most people live their lives within a radius of a few miles of their childhood homes," she said. "Not many people go adventuring. And even those who do have to take themselves with them. That must turn out to be a bit of a disappointment.

But if we all avoided doing anything for which we are not exceptionally gifted, we would do almost nothing at all and would never discover what we can become. Instead we would waste much of the span of life allotted us in keeping safe, confining activities.

All children are mad daredevils. I suppose we become too staid and dull as we grow up.

You are a stranger to me, and I am a stranger to myself.

The new moon would soon leave little light to navigate by.

When you travel, there really are no mistakes--just learning opportunities.

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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Our physicists have confirmed the practicality of using an altered asteroid for transport

WELL, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, the Stella Maris is on her way out of the solar system

There is simply no alternative. We have to know them.

Anne shrieked with laughter, but George yelled, "I don't suppose we could get a little gravity around here?" and D.W. hollered back, Nope. All we got is levity." And thus began the first morning of the Jesuit mission to Rakhat. [148]

Be careful," Aunt Blythe said. "The floor's riddled with dry rot." Forgetting her own warning, she plunged ahead, opening trunks and boxes, poking and pawing through things, reminiscing.

But underneath, in the place of dream and feeling, she is going places that she, on the surface, would not understand.