Quotes About Adventure

We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.

Follow the fear.

There we were, me and Honey. It wasn't France, but it was somehow fine.

What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way?

My horse is plodding down a path unspooling under her hooves like a ball of wool, only wider, while I think of ways to wake kings or small children or writers, all of whom seem to be constantly sleeping and dreaming of me in the seventh square on a horse with a mind of her own.

The golden anchor beckons, the blue sail rises Like the wing of a dream unfolding to a new day. Let us depart, my muse! Beyond an anxious prow, the sea stretches itself out…

Hiking is just walking where it's okay to pee.

I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40 000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'

But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

He liked the grand size of things in the woods, the feeling of being lost and far away, and the sense he had that with so many trees as wardens, no danger could find him.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

I love how books can transport you to another place. You get caught up in the characters' lives, and they become your friends. I guess I want to share my love of reading with others.

Denise Kiernan

noted naturalist and Sierra Club cofounder John Muir,

Your home should give you a sense of belonging and provide a context for interpreting your life's experiences. It should be a reference place that you look forward to returning to, an anchoring point from which you venture into the world, and a place where you know that your heart resides. To gain a sense of belonging to a place, it is essential to 'ground' yourself. Even if you move often, in each location imagine sinking your roots into earth.

The light still shone in the dark, a beacon, drawing him forward to the edge of the map, the place where the cartographer might mark "here there be dragons.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

I Found a Silver Dollar I found a silver dollar, But I had to pay the rent. I found an alligator But his steering-wheel was bent. I found a little monkey, So I took him to the zoo. Then I found a sticky kiss and so I brought it home to you.

We were born to be free, to expand our horizons by going where we have never gone before, and not to hang out in the relative comfort and safety of the nest, the known. There is a place within us that is courageous beyond our human understanding; it yearns to explore beyond the boundaries of our daily life.

To learn more, we have to be willing to leave the zone of the known and step into the void.

I wear two condoms all the time. Then when I make love, I take one off, and I feel like a wild man.

Make me laugh. Make me cry. Tell me my place in the world. Lift me out of my skin and place me in another. Show me places I have never visited and carry me to the ends of time and space. Give my demons names and help me to confront them. Demonstrate for me possibilities I've never thought of and present me with heroes who will give me courage and hope. Ease my sorrows and increase my joy. Teach me compassion. Entertain and enchant and enlighten me. Tell me a story.

Tell me a story.

At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.