Quotes About Adventure

I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Stories live in typewriters. Try a different typewriter — you may get a different story.

All mushrooms are edible — but some only once.

The weather being fine and dry... he sent his valise on by the coach, and set out to walk.... in the healthful exercise and the pleasant road. It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. And he had plenty of unsettled subjects to meditate upon, though he had been walking to the Land's End.

But the walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day. If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life. Think of a man's swinging dumbbells for his health, when those springs are bubbling up in far-off pastures unsought by him!

You need special shoes for hiking — and a bit of a special soul as well.

Backpacking: An extended form of hiking in which people carry double the amount of gear they need for half the distance they planned to go in twice the time it should take.

Hiking is just walking where it's okay to pee.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Why wait for the weekend to have fun

Deny yourself the connection to the wild places that your soul craves and the fire inside you will slowly turn to ash.

Kids don't remember their best day of television.

A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.

Always jump in the puddles! Always skip alongside the flowers. Never turn down a good pillow fight.

Just about a month from today I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

The deer isn't crossing the road. It's crossing the forest.

If we dance amongst the rooftops, is it not that much further to jig into the starshine?

I could walk forever and a mile with one beautiful girl.

Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!

Age is not how old you are, but how many years of fun you've had.

Anything is possible. No one understands how far you can push your body to the limit, and I like to play with that.

Surfers have the most attitude.

The sea is at its best at London, near midnight, when you are within the arms of a capacious chair, before a glowing fire, selecting phases of the voyages you will never make.

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.