Quotes About Adventure

Little Two Eyes went home

Each of our lives was knit into these hedges and rooted in these fields and yet, notwithstanding all this, in response to some powerful yearning, my father was about to set out for the fifth time into the still more remote and untrodden west.

I like the sea, but it's not a creature I want to take liberties with.

As the Jeannette drew nearer to the equator, the waters became oily calm and teemed with eels, tortoises, and dolphins.

at a place not far from their actual

It was hard to comprehend how profoundly the world needed to scratch the Arctic itch.

But why would anyone—officer, seaman, or scientist—volunteer for such a risky and difficult mission in the Arctic?

them. A fire crackled in one corner, and a grand piano

to plan for a return to the Arctic. One

Siberia! The mainland of Asia … the delta of the mighty Lena River.

If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better.

I can settle down and be doing just fineTill I hear an old train rolling down the line,Then I hurry straight home and packAnd if I didn't go, I believe I'd blow my stackI love you baby, but you gotta understandWhen the Lord made me he made a ramblin' man

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

The mind, after being confined at home for a while, sends the imagination abroad in quest of new treasures; and the body may as well accompany it,

games are an extension of our imagination

To know me you have to fly with me. Up In the Air, Walter Kirn, 2001

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

You must never be afraid to go there.

It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.

If you are not willing to be a little crazy, go about your business.

For a time, Greeley seemed to be following the historic advice he had once given young Josiah Grinnell: "Go West, young man, go West.

Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.