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It still amazes me how many millions goes to discovering another star in the galaxies when, for all we know, read more
It still amazes me how many millions goes to discovering another star in the galaxies when, for all we know, we are still sitting on top of another undiscovered world beneath out feet.
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore read more
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a read more
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the read more
Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... read more
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.