Quotes about Exploration

A man ought to study the wilderness of a place before applying to it the ways he learned in another place.

Back home, I went to my closet and pulled out the old engineer's transit case stored there. When we were kids, Emma and I had found it in the attic, dusty and empty, and the leather strap used to carry it had a small cut in it. The tag on the top of the wooden-hinged lid read Circa 1907 . It was mostly weatherproof and offered plenty of room for the things I valued—like books.

We dwell in the place in which we are not traveling but are at home. The landscape of God's self-revelation in Jesus Christ is our home. It is a landscape that we are never finished exploring, for new prospects are always emerging. Nevertheless, it is familiar to us and becomes all the more familiar the longer we reside there.

If I had stopped asking questions, that's where I would have remained.

Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.

The rising levels of production and content are prompting producers to take up unusual subjects.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.

How do I work? I grope.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

I used to throw a lot of stuff against the wall, just to see what ended up sticking; now I'm pretty much using everything that I create for a record.

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.