Quotes About Adventure

When you have become quite wild, then perhaps some of the wild things will come to take a look at you, and one of them may perhaps take a fancy to you, not because you are suffering and cold, but simply because he happens to like your looks.

botanist in Hawaii with a knack for finding new species by getting lost in the jungle, by going beyond what he knew and how he knew, by letting experience be larger than his knowledge, by choosing reality rather than the plan.

That circle became a world whose rules I lived by, and I understood the moral of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes you're farthest away when you're closest, sometimes the only way is the long one.

The blue fairy godmother opened the door, and asked her if she'd had a good time, and she said Yes, and No, and It was very interesting to see all the fancy clothes and the fancy plates with fancy cakes and the fancy mirrors and the fancy lights. And then she said, It was even more interesting to see lizards become footwomen and mice become horses.

for pilgrims, walking is work.

Cómo emprenderás la búsqueda de aquello cuya naturaleza desconoces por completo?».

Live always at the 'edge of mystery'— the boundary of the unknown.

The surprises, liberations, and clarifications of travel can sometimes be garnered by going around the block as well as going around the world, and walking travels both near and far.

I love going out of my way, beyond what I know, and finding my way back a few extra miles

Lose the whole world, he asserts, get lost in it, and find your soul.

Woolf is celebrating getting lost, not literally lost as in not knowing how to find your way, but lost as in open to the unknown, and the way that physical space can provide psychic space.

The random, the unscreened, allows you to find what you don't know you are looking for, and you don't know a place until it surprises you. Walking is one way of maintaining a bulwark against this erosion of the mind, the body, the landscape, and the city, and every walker is a guard on patrol to protect ineffable.

It's life, Sidda. You just climb on the beast and ride.

As Vivi drove, it seemed that not only the Ya-Ya's bodies but the earth and sky were sweating. The very air they breathed was almost a juice. Moonlight spilled down into the convertible, onto the four friends' shoulders and knees and on the tops of their heads, so that their hair seemed to have little sparks shooting off it. Vivi had no idea at all where she was headed, but she knew that whatever direction she went, her friends would go with her.

When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

Well, I could have predicted that something like this was going to happen. You can't go anywhere with Mama without things getting nuts. If it's going along too smooth she will invent something just to stir things up. Sometimes we'll be downtown

En un tren, parece que puedas ir a cualquier parte.

want to be grown-up and drive my own convertible and live in a different town where nobody knows Mama or Daddy.

What a gamble it is to have children!

Perché mai la vita moderna ha generato orrori al cui confronto le vecchie tragedie sembrano spettacoli per bambini? Forse perché l'umanità in cerca di avventura ha cambiato troppo il mondo esterno che genera la vita.

Once there was a boy who had to leave home...and find another.

Time flies, but if I am willing to fly with it, then I can be airborne, too.

How often on an expedition have I told myself, That's enough! and then a few weeks later when the effort, worry, and hardship were forgotten, I began dreaming about a new journey, planning a new climb. Pretty soon I'd be off again. And once again, it would be dangerous. I never intended to risk my neck, but I knew that if I were ever to stop dreaming or traveling I would be old. And that would drive me to despair.

Als Abenteurer habe ich weder gegen die Natur angekämpft noch mich in ihr verloren. Ich habe gelernt, in ihr zu lesen, sie als gegeben zu respektieren und nicht weiter mit dem Leben zu hadern. Damit bin ich zu meinen Erkenntnissen über die Menschennatur gekommen und zu dem Mut, den Sinn in meinem Tun selbst zu definieren. Niemand hat mich dazu gezwungen. Ständig in der Wildnis unterwegs und vor das Nichts gestellt, zwingt uns die Natur zur Besinnung auf uns selbst.