Quotes About Adventure

I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

On the road again, goin' places that I've never been. Seein' things that I may never see again, and I can't wait to get on the road again.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.

It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

Take the back roads instead of the highways.

If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect.

It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.