Quotes about Exploration

She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are: Where have you been all my life? they ask. Where have I been all my life? she replies.

Forbidden things are open to the imagination.

Think of me as a guide. Think of yourself as a wanderer in a dark wood. It's about to get darker.

You don't understand much, he says. Why do you think I was lost in the impenetrable forest in the first place?

She'd love to go over him with a fine-toothed comb. Rummage around in him. Turn him upside down. Empty him out.

Opening up their sack, the children chorus, "Oh Snowman, what have we found?" They lift out the objects, hold them up as if offering them for sale: a hubcap, a piano key, a chunk of pale-green pop bottle smoothed by the ocean. A plastic BlyssPluss container, empty; a ChickieNobs Bucket O'Nubbins, ditto. A computer mouse, or the busted remains of one, with a long wiry tail.

I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. Treacherous ground, my own territory.

it is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends.

It is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends.

I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

There should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.