Quotes About Adventure

Rules? You don't even know what game we're playing, mister.

Phips his Wreck-Voyage.

It was the first rough travelling I'd done on my African adventure and it felt good. South Africa had been too easy. I simply turned up at a minivan station and there was a death trrap waiting for me. Now I was on a painfully slow truck that shuddered and groaned in a manner that suggested it wasn't long for this world.

came to the Bar Formentor

Once Is Enough, Miles Smeeton's thrilling (and even funny) account of his two separate and disastrous capsizes aboard his yacht Tzu Hang in the Southern Ocean west of Cape Horn.

Moitessier very quickly wrote another book, his second, about their voyage, Cap Horn à la voile (titled in English: Cape Horn: The Logical Route), which was published in time for France's premier boat show, the Salon Nautique. It became a huge best-seller.

Dumas's book, Alone Through the Roaring Forties

At the other end of the earth, at the farthest reach of each sailor's due north, the British transarctic expedition, led by English explorer-author Wally Herbert, was at the same time approaching the North Pole after more than 400 days on the polar ice cap.

With the last sentence Blyth stumbles across the credo of all adventurers, be they sailors, mountaineers, or explorers. The where and how is simply the means to burrow as deeply as posssible into oneself. It's the answer to the relentless question that floods the mind when the exercise becomes painful and severe: What am I doing here? What's the point?

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.

My life is littered with copies of Moby Dick.

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

There is so much for you to do," she said. "So many places." "How do you know?" I said. "I can feel it," she said.

Forget forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment.

You have to look like you're going somewhere and if you can you don't ever want to look like you're carrying everything you own. You want to travel light like you have a home and that's where you keep your things.

he has bills of money folded thick in his hand. He gives me some. "Go in and buy a ticket to Bend," he says. "One way." "Where?" I say. "I've never heard of that place." "Bend,

It's about the girl," she said. "She lived for four years in the forest, never in a house. Growing things, hiding, reading books. We'll go see her; she'll tell us things.

You step outside, because real running is done outside, dammit, in the open air, where the endorphins hide.

Grant me grace to follow you into the unknown, into the next place in my journey with you. In your name, amen.

Vielleicht hängt es tatsächlich mit diesen frühen Fahrten, diesem ständigen Unterwegssein zusammen, daß ich mich später immer, wenn ich unterwegs war, eher zuhause fühlte, als wenn ich irgendwo blieb und mich einzurichten versuchte.

Wenn er nämlich wahrhaft gelebt hat, kann das nur in fernen Landen gewesen sein.

Adventure is a nameless joy

Fishermen's pirogues and expedition tents at Lokobe Reserve

But deceleration is for pansies. We're headed for the stars.