Quotes About Adventure

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

What sets a canoeing expedition apart," Pierre Elliott Trudeau wrote in an essay a quarter century before he became Canada's fifteenth prime minister, "is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.

The big Ford van had been travelling non-stop since the last bathroom break and Travis had no idea how long ago that had been. He knew only that they had finally turned off that boring four-lane highway and that, far in the distance over the trees, the high green bridge over the St. Lawrence River was now visible. Beyond lay New York State and the road to Lake Placid. Finally.

Calla, calla, princesa —dice el hada madrina—; en caballo, con alas, hacia acá se encamina, en el cinto la espada y en la mano el azor, el feliz caballero que te adora sin verte, y que llega de lejos, vencedor de la Muerte, a encenderte los labios con un beso de amor

cabalgad, cabalgad sin descanso—respondió la sombra,—si buscáis el Eldorado....».

A vida é assim mesmo. É sempre possível deixar o barco atracado ou só navegar nas baías mansas. Aí não há perigo de naufrágio. Mas não há o prazer do calafrio e do desconhecido.

Talvez seja por isso que os navegadores navegam: porque no perigo e no abismo eles veem refletida a eternidade.

...I didn't do anything that can properly be called research; rather, I proceeded by the methodless method of "determined browsing"—

Long live transfinite mountains, the hollow earth, time machines, fractal writing, aliens, dada, telepathy, flying saucers, warped space, teleportation, artificial reality, robots, pod people, hylozoism, endless shrinking, intelligent goo, antigravity, surrealism, software highs, two-dimensional time, gnarly computation, the art of photo composition, pleasure zappers, nanomachines, mind viruses, hyperspace, monsters from the deep and, of course, always and forever, the attack of the giant ants!

The great gray-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees.

Who hath desired the sea?—the sight of salt water unbounded.

Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,Where there aren't no Ten Commandments, an' a man can raise a thirst.

The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,Or the way of a man with a maid;But the sweetest way to me is a ship's upon the seaIn the heel of the Northeast Trade.

I've taken my fun where I've found it.

He went back through the wet wild woods, waving his wild tail, and walking by his wild lone. But he never told anybody.

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains....

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all.

Challenge yourself to the limits of your fears. Get moving on.

My American friends were full of kindly scorn when I announced that I was going to Canada. "A country without a soul!" they cried, and pressed books upon me, to befriend me through that Philistine bleakness.