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Quotes About Adventure

We must go and see for ourselves.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.
~ Charles Webster Hawthorne
My perfect weekend... anything to do with nature.
~ Paul Walker
Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things.
~ Peder Soerensen
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.
~ Washington Irving
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
~ Stephen Gardiner
You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.
~ Martha Beck
Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.
~ David Sobel
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
~ Ansel Adams
Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.
~ Diane Ackerman
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
~ Aldo Leopold
I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.
~ Ricky Williams
The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.
~ James Russell Lowell
Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.
~ Paul J. McAuley
True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.
~ David R. Brower
The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.
~ Henry Beston
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
We shall not cease from exploration
~ T. S. Eliot
By nature I am curious about life, and this extends to my business.
~ Richard Branson
The study of nature is a limitless field, the most fascinating adventure in the world.
~ Margaret Morse Nice