Quotes About Adventure

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

Wander a whole summer if you can...time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get---people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep....

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

And into the woods I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.

Of all the paths in life you take, make sure a few of them are dirt

Who has not felt the urge to throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence?

Wherever we go in the mountains, or indeed in any of God's wild fields, we find more than we seek.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters little where you go, or how often to the same place. Wherever you chance to be always seems at the moment of all places the best; and you feel that there can be no happiness in this world or in any other for those who may not be happy here.

People are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home, that wilderness is a necessity.

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.

I tied a crust of bread to my belt, and with Carlo set out for the upper slopes of the Pilot Peak Ridge, and had a good day, notwithstanding the care of seeking the silly runaways.

We turned and sailed away, joining the outgoing bergs, while gloria in excels is still seemed to be sounding over all the white landscape, and our burning hearts were ready for any fate, feeling that whatever the future might have in store, the treasures we had gain would enrich our lives forever.

You may be a little cold some nights on mountain tops above the timber-line, but you will see the stars, and by and by you can sleep enough in your town bed. or at least in your grave. Keep awake while you may in mountain mansions so rare.

feeling sure that I would learn something and at the same time get rid of a severe bronchial cough that followed an attack of the grippe and had troubled me for three months. I intended to camp on the glacier every night, and did so, and my throat grew better every day until it was well, for no lowland microbe could stand such a trip.