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Quotes About Adventure

In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses, and stories of incredible courage.
~ Conn Iggulden
I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.
~ Melina Marchetta
I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.
~ Miranda Kerr
I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
~ Bas Rutten
Behind every tree there's a new monster.
~ Todd Rundgren
I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me.
~ Madonna Ciccone
How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million?
~ Johnny Weissmuller
I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.
~ Michael Palin
Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then figuring out how to get him down again.
~ Jane Yolen
I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.
~ Ty Pennington
Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.
~ Emayatzy E. Corinealdi
How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.
~ Eudora Welty
I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
~ Tom Petty
Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.
~ Orson Scott Card
In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.
~ Shirley MacLaine
To walk on the road is a journey; to sit under the tree is a journey! Everything we do is a journey to somewhere!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree.
~ Morena Baccarin
This tree house became our galleon, our spaceship, our Fort Apache...Ours was a learning tree. Through it we learned to trust ourselves and our abilities.
~ Richard Louv
She fell into a long sleep and dreamed the dreams of the Dream Tree.
~ Stephen Cosgrove
I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair.
~ Taylor Swift
Come with me to howling tree?""What?""Howling tree. It's a place a found. Come on
~ Debbie Moon
Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.
~ Rene Char