Quotes About Adventure

Peter stood up and let a wicked smile slide across his face. "Time to play.

Free your spirit.

Let's play," Peter said.

Peter had two short swords strapped on his back, the belts crisscrossing his chest bandito style. A black splash of war paint covered his face, and his golden eyes gleamed out from the paint. He pulled his swords free, clanged them together, and all the Devils lined up on either side of him. (the Child Thief)

Peter kept walking.

I just love to experience things. I would do almost anything once.

I loved the travel but I didn't love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating!

God told us to go. He didn't promise that we would come back." Butros

To each mortal peradventure earth becomes a new machine.

We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We want to know mountains too, but they've got no story. So we do the next best thing. We throw ourselves onto them and make the stories happen.

Civilization proceeds in a direction opposite from everything mountains represent: starvation, hardship, coldness, the constant scramble to survive...People used to avoid mountains, but now we seek their company. We come for the pretty sights, but also to find a place still free from those life-saving constraints. We come to the mountain seeking beauty and terror.

During their coastal wintering, Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery enjoyed a total of twelve days without rain.

In the deep forests of Mount Rainier, the sun doesn't rise, it leaks in thin bands through the trees.

When the sun shines, the Wonderland Trail is an exhausting but not unrewarding trek. When it rains, the Wonderland's a downright bitch.

Only a fool has never climbed Mount Fuji; only a fool has climbed it more than once." I needed that once. John I became disoriented

People used to avoid mountains, but now we seek their company. We come for the pretty sights, but also to find a place still free from those life-saving constraints. We come to the mountain seeking beauty and terror.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul. Baudelaire, 'Any Where Out of this World!

I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.

He went back to his solitary wanderings. Believing any set of four walls to be a tomb or a trap, he preferred to float over the most barren of open spaces.

Behind him were three Arctic voyages in search of the North-West Passage. Before him were two books of seamanship and six fatal cuts of a Japanese pirate's sword.

His one friend was the black boy, Pepeu, whom he held in thrall. Together they plucked finches alive, made certain experiments with the flesh of a watermelon, and shouted obscenities at the girls washing tripes in the river.    Once, they tried crucifying a cat, but it got away.

One year, he went to Paris for the week-end: but that completely upset his equilibrium.