Quotes About Adventure

If I had refused to contemplate skydiving, hot-air ballooning or crossing the Atlantic in a boat, I think that my life would have been the duller for it. I never think that I am going to die by accident, but if I were to die then all I can say is that I was wrong, and the hardened realists who kept their feet on the ground were right. But at least I tried.

Steve did not have a death wish. He had the exact opposite. His appetite for life was so strong, it outweighed all fear. So what if his choices shortened his life? His choices filled his life, and enriched the lives of those around him.

Challenge is the core and mainspring of all human action. If there's an ocean, we cross it. If there's a disease, we cure it. If there's a wrong, we right it. If there's a record, we break it. And if there's a mountain, we climb it.' I totally agree and believe we should all continue to challenge ourselves.

Vive como si fueras a morir mañana. Aprende como si fueras a vivir por siempre". Este

As soon as something stops being fun, I think it's time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy, waking up stressed and miserable isn't a good way to live.

Dream Big. Play Big. Take Risks !! Keep working towards things that really matter. It is only by being bold that you get where you wanna get.

If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later." Richard Branson

On impulse, Joan and I decided to fly down to the Virgin Islands. We had nowhere to stay and not very much money, but I heard that if you expressed a serious interest in buying an island the local estate agent would put you up for nothing in a grand villa and fly you all around the Virgin Islands by helicopter.

about enjoying life to the fullest.

Screw it. Let's do it.

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

The beaten path can be a busy and distracting place.

We're all travelling through time together, everyday of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.

So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.

Just as the long night of the Arctic ends, the brilliant sunshine of Truth shall come again... and those who are of darkness shall fall in its Light... FOR I HAVE SEEN THAT LAND BEYOND THE POLE, THAT CENTER OF THE GREAT UNKNOWN.

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

I confess that the idea of taking off one's boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had its funny side.

My contract had specified only that I 'should undertake work upon the fossil Arthropoda,' which left me free to roam through hundreds of millions of years. It might as well have said: 'Amuse yourself--for money.

Nevada...a land that is geology by day and astronomy at night

Repeatedly I have been impressed to learn that to reach a goal never before attained, one must do things never before done.

I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.