Quotes About Adventure

Let's try, said Evelyn. Let's do it for the mermicorns.

Friendship Forest!

It was Jack Frost!

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

The world owes its progress to the men who have dared

called Forest Park—and it was a forest, probably not much different in appearance from what it was when Columbus discovered America. I frequently walked in this park with Rex, my little Boston bulldog. He was a friendly, harmless little hound; and since we rarely

until I had wandered beyond railways, beyond stage lines, to a land of varmints and rattlesnakes, where the coming of a stranger was an event, and men lived and died in the shadow of one blue hill.

How much better it would be if they weren't so damn understanding--if they kicked me out of the house. To find yourself out in the street with two dollars to your name, to catch the streetcar downtown and get a job, perhaps as an airline stewardess. Think how wonderful it would be to fly to Houston and back three times a week for the next twenty years. You think I'm kidding? I'm not. It would be wonderful.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

What if I don't like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow.

That's what life's all about Dolores, climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

He who goes questing for what he wants may discover, along the way, what he needs.

Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try new things but still makes you feel safe.

What if I don't like adventure?" I said. Ruth dragged over a kitchen chair and sat down facing me. "Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow.

he'd just recently relocated in Connecticut after twenty three years out in Saginaw, Michigan. Great Lakes country. God's country.

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.

I tramp a perpetual journey.

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair.

Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.

To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls. -from Song of the Open Road

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!