Quotes About Adventure

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.

All of life is a foreign country.

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

To travel is to possess the world

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

The world is full of marvels, if you're willing to travel far enough to see them.