Quotes About Adventure

Ever since I've been a kid, I've always been about running around, climbing trees, exploring.

When I started competing at X Games, there was so much chaos that often me and my girlfriends would go into the trees and just take a moment.

I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees.

Sometimes I have to shake my head at how much work it can take to track down a handful of food. Perfect example: I spent a whole day in the Amazon rainforest, in Ecuador, scouring the trunks of dead palm trees for grubs.

The kids have got their iPads, but they prefer to get out climbing trees and coming out with me. That's the kind of learning I want them to have: experiences.

We grew up climbing trees, playing outdoors and cycling.

I spent a lot of time alone when I was a kid, I climbed trees, hopped creek beds, read, watched movies, I'd make stories, make films.

As a kid, my first friends were the local children and we used to climb trees and run barefoot, dodging the odd scorpion.

There were many fruit trees in our house when I was growing up and I never missed climbing any of them.

I love fruit. One of my earliest memories is climbing trees for figs, and I once got stuck in one when I was six. I could see the biggest, juiciest fig and I climbed up and got it and ate it right there, sitting on a branch. Then I realised I couldn't get down.

I've never been more terrified than when I learned how to paramotor. They attached this machine to my back, as if I was a stuntman in a James Bond movie, and I had to fly over all these trees and patches of concrete in Cirencester.

I think that a lot of people will agree that Donegal is the countryside, it's trees and fields, but especially when you're a kid you can make so much out of that.

I used to climb trees and ride my bike way too fast downhill.

'Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.

Star Trek made dreaming legitimate.

It takes a certain kind of person who loves 'Star Trek' to bring it to life.

Growing up, I was always blown away by 'Star Trek' and 'Barbarella' and 'Logan's Run.' The retro sci-fi thing.

I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.

Aren't we all 'Star Trek' fans? That's the show that captured our imaginations after cartoons and everything!

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

I was a huge fan of the original 'Star Trek,' and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship.

There's two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once you've read, you never look at the world the same way again.

I drove down to Leh with my brother and from there, we had a two-day trek till the base camp of Stok Kangri. After a day's layover to acclimatize ourselves and a partial attempt to climb the peak, we attempted the final climb a day later.

I even got invited to a 'Star Trek' sea cruise. That was pretty exciting.