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Exploration Quotes
"As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration."
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"Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas?How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?"
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"I like paths that lead nowhere, that leave you wondering where you are."
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"We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season."
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"I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move."
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"I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible."
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"I bet,' said Mulch, 'that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn.'Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer.Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything."
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"I'm trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found.""That can be as hard as looking for a shadow."
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"In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school."
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"It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America."
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"When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth."
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"The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena."
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"I'm learning how to taste everything."
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"They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March."
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"My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff."
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"My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead."
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"There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information."
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"Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape."
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"Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America."
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"I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable."
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"She felt something missing in her soul. It wasn't until she landed in Edinburgh that she realized that missing piece was the wild, mystical land."
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"Even if the aliens are short, dour, and sexually obsessed-if they're here, I want to know about them."
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"I therefore named this isolated and remarkable feature Swan Hill."
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"It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you."
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"A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice."
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"There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond."
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"When you succumb to obedience, in an erotic sense, you are not giving away a part of yourself, but seeking something new, something other, within yourself."
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"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop."
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"Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival."
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"The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder."
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"In that case, on behalf of Earthlife, I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly increase our knowledge of the Solar System and then begin to settle other worlds."
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"There were mountains; there were valleys; there were streams. She climbed the mountains; roamed the valleys; sat on the banks of streams.....when, from the mountain-top, she beheld, far off, across the Sea of Marmara the plains of Greece, and made out (her eyes were admirable) the Acropolis with a white streak or two which must, she thought, be the Parthenon, her soul expanded with her eyeballs, and she prayed she might share the majesty of the hills, know the serenity of the plains, etc. etc., as all such believers do."
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"I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges."
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"What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face."
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"Life is enrich with every new adventure."
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"Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it?Ford: We're safe.Arthur: Oh good.Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet. that I wasn't previously aware of."
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"The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself? The sky is NOT the limit. Beyond the universe is."
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"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."
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"If you look at the world with eyes that wish to learn, you will see lessons everywhere."
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"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time."
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"When I read something by someone... I like to dive in his world as much as possible."
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"Those footprints in the snow led me to this wildfire."
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"Explore the depth of the sacred world."
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"The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile."
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"When you've been everywhere, tried it all and done it all, what's left is the exploration of self, intellectually and sexually, through curiosity and erotica."
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"I like curiosity. It's a mind game, not a necessity."
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"Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy patterns of the shadows across the path. And then myself, walking with the alignment that only comes after miles, the loose diagonal rhythm of arms swinging in synchronization with legs in a body that felt long and stretched out, almost as sinuous as a snake when you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains."
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