Quotes from Mark Jenkins

Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

Stop worrying about whether they can handle it. You want the truth? Your kid is hardier than you are... Kids are tough.

Wanderlust is incurable.

Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

Adventure becomes hubris when it blinds you to the suffering of the human beings next to you.

Climbing mountains is an act I happen to love, but it is only one form of adventure. There are thousands. In fact, there's one for every human with the passion to push personal boundaries.

At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.