Quotes About Adventure

Traveler, there is no path, paths are made by walking. —ANTONIO MACHADO, CANTARES

The world is a book," goes a saying attributed to Saint Augustine, "and those who do not travel read only one page.

A vacation, after all, merely rewards work. Vagabonding justifies it.

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry." —PAUL THEROUX, QUOTING TONY THE BEACHCOMBER, IN THE HAPPY ISLES OF OCEANIA    In this way, vagabonding is like a pilgrimage without a specific destination or goal—not a quest for answers so much as a celebration of the questions, an embrace of the ambiguous, and an openness to anything that comes your way.

In reality, long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics- age, ideology, income- and everything to do with personal outlook. Long-term travel isn't about being a college student, it's about being a student of daily life. Long-term travel isn't an act of rebellion against society; it's an act of common sense within society. Long-term travel doesn't require a massive "bundle of cash", it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.

Certain activities—sleeping, eating, reading, socializing, wandering—will become a fixture of each day. This is good and well (routines make your day more efficient, after all), but you should be careful not to let your days or destinations blur together. Once this begins to happen—once you feel yourself getting jaded to the long haul—it's time to mix your travels up a bit.

always challenge yourself to try new things and keep learning.

Explore your own higher latitudes," wrote Thoreau in Walden. "Be a Columbus to whole new continents within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences," wrote Bertrand Russell. "They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item.

Vagabonding is about gaining the courage to loosen your grip on the so-called certainties of this world. Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.

vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment no matter what. —GEORGE SANTAYANA, "THE PHILOSOPHY OF TRAVEL

Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas.

Aimer est une aventure sans carte et sans compas où seule la prudence égare.

I had known that I would not find Morel alone. I knew that Africa still had plenty of those adventurers always ready to jump at a chance to break the law — to rob, pillage, and in general live a life of freedom.' Our continent has not yet lost all its attraction for men who feel free only with a gun in their hand.

Dia prova di prudenza, è sempre una buona scusa. Oppure parta con me domani. Non faccia la sciocchezza di perdersi qualcosa per eccesso di esperienza. Parta con me, dia una possibilità all'impossibile. Non ha idea di quanto l'impossibile non ne possa più, e a che punto abbia bisogno di noi.

She knew that Fort Lamy was a long way away, on the other side of the Sahara, in the middle of Africa — another world. Another world — and that was exactly what she needed. There at last she would be able to satisfy her need for warmth — even at Tunis there were moments when the cold was more than she could take.

The more you travel, the better you get at it. It sounds silly, but with experience you learn how to pack the right way. I remember one of my first trips abroad, travelling around Europe by rail, fresh out of high school. I brought all these books with me and a paint set. I really had too much stuff, so I've learnt to be more economical.

Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.

I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn't care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.

What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature's course.

Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?