Quotes About Adventure

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience — and laughter.

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience – and laughter.

Because the reward is worth the risk.

That's the Marshall men - they don't know the word for slow down, be careful, stop and think ... you know, prudence.

His life was totally out of control. And it had never felt so right.

Bold and courageous and so full of life. She was adventure and zeal and added a brightness to his day.

Not everyone can have my level of adventure.

I love books. They're like a piece of my life I haven't lived yet.

You have to learn to live life in the middle of the danger. And trust that there's a bigger plan.

I won't die. I can't guarantee I won't do something stupid." -Colt

Oh, she knew it. Apparently, she had a type. The kind of men who didn't care what trouble—or death—might be waiting for them. Who turned their face to it and charged ahead. The kind of men who died for what they believed in. The kind of men who would break her heart.

What happens in Montana stays in Montana, Glo.

They aren't afraid to take risks, but they don't gamble. They are generous but not extravagant. They thrive on beauty of economics, the fact that it is both art and science.

children, as they grow, learn about the world and their place in it by testing what they know and experimenting with what they don't.

It's as if there's a bridge they need to cross. And it's like crossing over the ocean, Brette.

Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Life is a journey, not a destination.

Maybe being brave is different from being unafraid. If you're not afraid, what is there to be brave about?

The gaping unknown

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

Okay, fuck the sundial. We'll just go straight and eventually we'll get there. What I mean is that we'll get somewhere. Out of here. I mean, logically, we have to get out as long as we walk straight. I've done this millions of times. Whenever everything's killing me, I just say to myself, screw it, and go straight ahead.

In 1925, a man named Harry Pidgeon completed a solo sailing trip around the world, becoming only the second person ever to do so. He had gotten the building plans for his boat and most of his nautical knowledge from books he had borrowed from the Los Angeles Public Library. His boat, The Islander, was nicknamed The Library Navigator.

they also believed that you read a book for the experience of reading it. You didn't read it in order to have an object that had to be housed and looked after forever, a memento of the purpose for which it was obtained. The reading of the book was a journey. There was no need for souvenirs.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation. That has always been part of its charm, Laroche loved orchids, but I came to believe he loved the difficulty and fatality of getting them almost as much as the flowers themselves.