Quotes About Adventure

You only live once but in my case, twice. I'm indestructible.

I've been to India, and I never thought I'd go there.

I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.

Ça dure toute la vie, une évasion. C'est tout le temps à refaire.

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

There is no single, correct objective in mountaineering; there are only possibilities. One of them leads beyond the impossible. - Reinhold Messner

What counts are merely the experiences one gains along the way. -Reinhold Messner

A failed attempt on a virgin face of an eight thousander gives me much more than the successful ascent of a known route.

where mountains are sacred & where risk & death are constant companions- the Himalayas.

To know a mountain, you must sleep on it. —Tom Longstaff, This My Voyage

In contrast, his parents considered climbing a completely useless and dangerous activity.

Life is beautiful, but only if you live it fully!

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

First colonized by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, in 1583, St John's has ever since been an important outpost of the Americas. Home port of the vast Grand Banks cod fishing fleet, it was here, on Signal Hill, that Marconi received the first transatlantic wireless message in 1901, and from here Alcock and Brown took off to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919.

U-223 turned southwards, and quickly worked up to 16 knots, her thundering diesels matching the heartbeat of all on board. The chase was on.

Playing the game is far more satisfying than reading the rules.

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

When a great adventure is launched with a powerful thrust, fatigue in the muscles and doubts in the mind are swept away by a fullness that moves life along like a breath from the depths of the soul.

I can only give them my first log, with birds, sea, daily sights and little everyday problems. My real log is written in the sea and sky; it can't be photographed and given to others. It has gradually come to life out of all that has surrounded us for months: the sounds of water on the hull, the sounds of wind gliding on the sails, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk. 1

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

On ne demande pas à une mouette apprivoisée pourquoi elle éprouve le besoin de disparaître de temps en temps vers la pleine mer. Elle y va, c'est tout, et c'est aussi simple qu'un rayon de soleil, aussi normal que le bleu du ciel.

People often imagine that sailors are a breed of supermen; that we almost never sleep, spend all our time handling sails, never get a hot meal. If they only knew!

If I do have to sight land, I like it to be from as far off as possible.