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Quotes About Adventure

Patagonia, like Mr Kipling, really does make exceedingly good lakes.
~ Alastair Humphreys
I have discovered that coming up with an interesting plan (and committing to making it happen) is virtually all you need to do to guarantee an interesting, challenging and rewarding experience.
~ Alastair Humphreys
Living adventurously is nothing more than an attitude you charge at life with.
~ Alastair Humphreys
Alastair Humphreys
~ but he saved me.
There lives and there leaps in me A love of the lowly things of earth, And a passion to be free. To pitch my tent with no prosy plan, To range and to change at will, To mock at the mastership of man, To seek Adventure's thrill, Carefree to be, as a bird that sings, To go my own sweet way. Robert Service
~ Alastair Humphreys
And although, snug in your sleeping bag on a frosty night, the valley below may be bright with street lights and roads, the wind is as raw and fresh as ever, and a night beneath the stars remains magical and precious.
~ Alastair Humphreys
It is like a kayaker approaching a rapid. Once he reaches the point of no return he just has to go for it and trust himself to cope with whatever may be thrown at him. I am on my way. There is no point worrying anymore. I feel a surge of release and remember why I put myself through all these agonies. I love the thrill of beginning new projects. It is a feeling that makes me sing out loud and feel like the luckiest man alive.
~ Alastair Humphreys
It feels good to carry my world on my back. I smile in the sunlight. I could travel and live this lightly forever, I remember as I get into my stride.
~ Alastair Humphreys
If you want to do difficult, exciting things on life then you have to carefully but regularly test what you are really able to do. You have to think whether a risk is worth taking, or if it is just silly. And you neet to be brave, trying out things that you previously felt might be too hard. If you do these things often, you'll start to understand that you are capable of more than you ever imagined. You really. We all are.
~ Alastair Humphreys
When you travel, the world comes real and three-dimensional, impossibly vivid
~ Alastair Humphreys
I am more at peace with myself and the world when I spend an extended period outdoors
~ Alastair Humphreys
It is easy to begin but hard to stick at, which is why I respect anyone who has completed a long hike. You learn a lot, someone, by hiking in the hills
~ Alastair Humphreys
If you want to do difficult, exciting things in life then you have to carefully but regularly test what you are really able to do. You have to think whether a risk is worth taking, or if it is just silly. And you neet to be brave, trying out things that you previously felt might be too hard. If you do these things often, you'll start to understand that you are capable of more than you ever imagined. You really. We all are.
~ Alastair Humphreys
I now believe there is something even more important than striving for the remarkable. And that is to stop dreaming about an adventure of a lifetime, and instead pursue a lifetime of living adventure through a daily pledge to push myself a little, scare myself now and then and remain curious
~ Alastair Humphreys
If you want to do difficult, exciting things in life then you have to carefully but regularly test what you are really able to do. You have to think whether a risk is worth taking, or if it is just silly. And you neet to be brave, trying out things that you previously felt might be too hard. If you do these things often, you'll start to understand that you are capable of more than you ever imagined. You really are. We all are.
~ Alastair Humphreys
Maps are an invitation to adventure. Snow was falling and I was in a grubby, windowless room next to a pig. That was not on my map.
~ Alastair Humphreys
Only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all.
~ Alastair Reid
It is always better to try and fail than not to try.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I wish to have both things in my life: adventure and comfort.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Masai and elephants. The rest is dust.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.
~ Alastair Reynolds
We should have brought a torch," he was saying. "We have been to Saturn and back and we didn't bring a torch.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Having created these cognitively enhanced creatures, the safest option at the time appeared to be to launch them into interstellar space.
~ Alastair Reynolds
We have worlds to save, Doctor Aziba." "That sounds ... compelling," the physician allowed.
~ Alastair Reynolds