Quotes About Adventure

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

They drove for almost a quarter of an hour before

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.

We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

They've youth; they'll walk it out like a favorite pair trainers.

They've youth; they'll walk it out like a favorite pair pf trainers.

There can be great value in imagining our hero at the end of the story. When we have confidence in our destination we are more inclined to put our hero in jeopardy.

If you really want to spend some years in a Japanese monastery, there is no earthly reason why you shouldn't. Or if you want to spend your time hopping freight cars and digging Charlie Parker, it's a free country.

No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

Anus-thing is possible.

The rise of placelessness, on top of the sense that the whole planet is now minutely known and surveilled, has given this dissatisfaction a radical edge, creating an appetite to find places that are off the map and that are somehow secret, or at least have the power to surprise us.

In a fully discovered world exploration does not stop; it just has to be reinvented.

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or sleep under the stars, or perhaps share a whisky at a small country inn in order to remind yourself what matters most to you in life.

See the opportunities for adventures, not the constraints that get in the way.

Adventure is a loose word that means different things to different people. It is a state of mind, a spirit of trying something new and leaving your comfort zone. Adventure is about enthusiasm, ambition, open-mindedness and curiosity. If this is true, then 'adventure' is not only crossing deserts and climbing mountains; adventure can be found everywhere, every day, and it is up to us to seek it out.

But whenever you think, 'this is an exciting idea' and immediately follow that by thinking, 'this is a very stupid idea' then you know you are on to a good thing and that you will regret it if you wimp out.

But that was good enough for me, because adventure doesn't always have to be about climbing K2. Just getting out there and doing something is sometimes good enough. In fact, you shouldn't even compare your trip with climbing K2. You should compare it with the realistic alternative that faces most people with busy lives and tight diaries, which is doing no adventure at all.

I am busy. That phrase is the curse of our time. We are all busy, of course, but it's regarded as a boast, a badge of honour to be busy "I'm so busy! I've got 300 emails! Admire me!" Busy, busy, busy, all the bloody time. Being busy makes it difficult to find time for adventure, difficult to find time for ourselves and for some fallow time in the wilderness.

In a busy city it is easy to forget that somewhere out there are fields and rivers and peace.

It is always worth making a little effort to find a special spot to sleep because the memories and the smug Instagram photo last long after you've got your breath back. Bivvying