Quotes About Adventure

Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt.

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is." –Paraphrased from Charles Bukowski's poem "Roll the Dice

I got into the car and began cruising up and down the streets looking for a For Rent sign. It didn't seem to be an unusual thing to do.

La gloria está en el movimiento y en la osadía. Al carajo con la muerte. Es hoy y es hoy y es hoy. Sí.

Oyleyse okur,catlak Jimmy`i bir an icin birakip Arthur`a gecelim -ki hic sorun degil- yazma tarzimi kastediyorum burada : sa[a sola sicarim ve siz de hic zorlanmadan benimle gelirsiniz. Hic onemi yoktur,gorursunuz.

Tabi,Hank ne zaman istersen bende sicabilirsin.

when we were kids there was a strange house all the shades were always drawn and we never heard voices in there and the yard was full of bamboo and we liked to play in the bamboo pretend we were Tarzan (although

I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack.

Di media vuelta y me largué hacia la noche. Y en mi vida entró la magia. Y ahí sigue.

a new bishop finally had the courage to land in São Tomé in 1675. He was dead in two months.

Holmberg's Mistake.

Smith returned to Maine and then England. He had a map drawn of what he had seen, persuaded Prince Charles to look at it, and curried favor with him by asking him to award British names to all the Indian settlements. Then he put the maps in the books he wrote to extol his adventures. In this way Patuxet acquired its English name, Plymouth, after the city in England (it was then spelled "Plimoth").

I think it's very important to live a varied and interesting life before you try to write one.

In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.

If it wasn't for seasickness, all the world would be sailors!

But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which none but those who have experienced it can understand - If it is to be done, it must be by studying Humboldt.

The truth is something you must find out for yourself. It is like a voyage of discovery and you will meet many adventures along the way. Listen to people's opinions but in the end it must be for you to determine truth as you find it. Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest.

Most of the travel was purposeless, carried out in exactly the desperate spirit of fleeing from pursuers. It was romantic, in a certain sense. Especially if you're not the one doing it.

Days of yore when America was no more than a strip of land stretching a couple hundred miles west of the Atlantic and the rest was just a very compelling idea.

The road, they said, was a place apart, a country of its own ruled by no government but natural law, and its one characteristic was freedom.

He liked brown antiquated travel books describing trips that weren't possible anymore - explorations of the Western Hemisphere back when much of it was still unmapped.

Quit puzzling over it. The worst you can do is fail to kill a turkey and there's not a hunter in the world hasn't done that. Go on.