Quotes About Adventure

Then, on March 9, they felt the swell—the undeniable, unmistakable rise and fall of the ocean.

But Worsley took his chronometer out to the edge of the floe and timed the interval between swells—eighteen seconds

Shackleton immediately ran back to camp, going from tent to tent shouting

Land in sight! Land in sight!

It lay exactly 42 miles away; only 20 miles beyond it lay what had been their destination, Paulet Island.

Worsley identified the tallest of the peaks as Mount Percy on Joinville Island off the very tip of the Palmer Peninsula.

By the end of July, 1914, however, everything had been collected, tested, and stowed aboard the Endurance.

Hurriedly they ran up every sail to its full height and headed for the narrow opening in the reefs.

She sailed from London's East India Docks on August 1.

Wild, with six men, was sent back to the ship to salvage anything of value.

Then they came about once more onto the starboard tack. This time she just managed to slip through.

He promised to write a book later about the trip. He sold the rights to the motion pictures and still photographs that would be taken, and he agreed to give a long lecture series on his return. In all these arrangments, there was one basic assumption - that Shackleton would survive.

They thought of home, naturally, but there was no burning desire to be in civilization for its own sake. Worsley recorded: "Waking on a fine morning I feel a great longing for the smell of dewy wet grass and flowers of a Spring morning in New Zealand or England. One has very few other longings for civilization—good bread and butter, Munich beer, Coromandel rock oysters, apple pie and Devonshire cream are pleasant reminiscences rather than longings.

The whole undertaking was criticized in some circles as being too "audacious." And perhaps it was. But if it hadn't been audacious, it wouldn't have been to Shackleton's liking. He was, above all, an explorer in the classic mold—utterly self-reliant, romantic, and just a little swashbuckling.

I come from haunts of coot and hern,I make a sudden sallyAnd sparkle out among the fern,To bicker down a valley.

And o'er the hills and far awayBeyond their utmost purple rim,Beyond the night, across the day,Through all the world she followed him.

Much have I seen and known; cities of menAnd manners, climates, councils, governments,Myself not least, but honor'd of them all;And drunk delight of battle with my peers,Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.I am a part of all that I have met;Yet all experience is an arch wherethroughGleams that untravel'd world.

From the great deep to the great deep he goes.

A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art and peace.

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and, if need be, die for it.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.