Quotes About Adventure

A joke I used to know said that if you were planning a trip into the deepest wilderness you should pack a bottle of gin and a bottle of vermouth, and never open them unless and until you became hopelessly lost. Then, wherever you were, when you took your two bottles out of your kit bag, someone would come over the horizon and tell you how to make a better martini.

Just make a mark and see where it takes you

Because one who seeks the highest must not leave any path untried.

record—jacked one up the chamber, and continued to belt the lion as frequently as I could.

country, although hitherto difficult to reach. But Bell had solved the problem by ordering a thirty-five-foot-long steam launch from England, which was assembled in sections of about 150 pounds each. It was the perfect boat for hunting the many islands in the Ubangi, as it burned abundant wood for fuel and had a very shallow draught.

Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.

We have traveled. Now you will be the path I will walk I will walk Over you.

One thing we are learning to be sure of: life does not get less strange.

A road trip frees the mind, revitalizes the spirit, and infuses the body with Dr Pepper and teriyaki jerky.

I always gave her a book. An old hardback from the same section in the used bookstore where you'd find Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, and musty scrawled-in Hobbits, the painted paper covers often ripped or gone... My favorite was a sort of illustrated guidebook of pond creatures on which a very young child had written in pencil on each page under the picture of an otter I love otter Under a muskrat: I love muskrat Beaver: I love beaver

I think he tried to live every day just so he wouldn't die.

road trip frees the mind, revitalizes the spirit, and infuses the body with Dr Pepper and teriyaki jerky.

twenty-eight miles to the next one, Godawful Falls. Then eighty-one miles of fast water after that, to the next huge drop and portage at Last Chance Falls, with a couple of bigger rapids between, dangerous but runnable. A large meander in this stretch, northwest to northeast,

I think its a terrible invention. Nobody knows how to read a map anymore. You chase down a blue line but you have no idea where you are in the world. Like a rat in a maze. How do I ever know where I am in relation to Pikes Peak, or the South Platte? Or God?

But every river story they had ever read was just beneath the surface of their imaginations and must have fired them with extra energy and braced them, too, because at least half of those stories did not have happy endings.

Jack didn't want to throw shadow onto the trip; there was nothing worse on any expedition than a naysayer.

about how crazy hard is the journey of getting to where you have never been.

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

“Come,” he replied, “let us go out to the field.” So the two of them went out into the field,

Others went out to sea in ships, conducting trade on the mighty waters.

Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night among the wildflowers.

One day Jesus said to His disciples, “Let us cross to the other side of the lake.” So He got into a boat with them and set out.

Finding a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we boarded it and set sail.

We boarded an Adramyttian ship about to sail for ports along the coast of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.