Quotes About Adventure

tawny-headed man

Candide by Voltaire

There is no safety anywhere,' he said quietly, 'but you do not seem a man who is used to safety. Ride well.

We both should have left the train at Salt Lake. With the Mormons, you may have to share your man but at least you've got one.

spring and enough grass to last the burros for quite some time. After a careful scouting around, he made a fire of dead mesquite, which made almost no smoke, and fixed some coffee. When he had eaten, Dunbar gathered up his pan, pick, shovel, and rifle and moved out. He was

about him, although not many

Waterways would offer the easiest route across country, but any travel was a hardship. Most who traveled understood why the word "travel" had once been "travail.

Louis L'Amour

eat the meat of strange animals before I died.

Louis L'Amour

Whatever the book, a reader reads.

The thing to remember when traveling is that the trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.

Pa had found it and brought gold from it, and pa must have come

See? I am here. Why? Because I wanted to see, to know, to understand. I wanted to go beyond the Great River. I wanted to go beyond the plains. I want even to go beyond these mountains where we now are. I think I am in this world to find beauty in lonely places. At least, that is what I wish to think.

He did not take chances, but had helped to bury men who did.

Louis L'Amour

make the drive, skirting the mesa

Jeremiah stood there alone, his big hands empty, watching his brother go. Zeb was the last of his family, and when his family went west they never came back. Linus had come back, but that was before Jeremiah's time. None of the others ever had. There must be something out there, he said aloud. There must be something out there that gets 'em. Then, half smiling, he added, Maybe it's the varmint!

Louis L'Amour

I can ride anything that wears hair," she said

buckskin and maybe grabbing Lorna's bridle, too. It must have hurt when I flopped him into the saddle but he didn't make a sound, just glared at me. Taking up

Louis L'Amour

that the trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.

traveling so far across the country with this large woman, not fat mind you, but broad in the shoulder and beam, and strong.