Quotes About Adventure

On the open road there are no strangers. You share the same sky, the same mountain, the same sunshine and

rivers could still be crossed, we set out with a number of tamarind, laburnum, and coral tree saplings and

Romance lurks in the most unlikely places.

Early in the morning Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the veranda riding on Teddy's shoulder

That is another of the attractions of Tramping to nowhere in particular - the finding of somewhere in particular, the striking up of friendships, the discovery of new Springs and waterfalls,unusual pants, rare flowers,strange birds. In the hills a new Vista opens up at every bend in the road. That is what makes me a compulsive walker - new vistas,and the charm of unexpected.

jeweller left his shop and ran after us. So did Rocky.

The sea has had Conrad and Stevenson and Masefield, but the mountains continue to defy the written word. We have climbed their highest peaks and crossed their most difficult passes, but still they keep their secrets and their reserve; they remain remote, mysterious, spirit-haunted.

Mozambique and Timbuctoo. We took long walks together, explored old ruins, chased butterflies and waved to passing

Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread I dip in the river— There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.   The

Take any path and hope for the best. At least it will lead you out of the shadows.

What's the name of the book you're reading?' I asked. 'Tom Sawyer,' he said promptly. So I signed Mark Twain in his autograph book. He seemed quite happy.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

Russell Hoban

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it like Ahab with the White Whale. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone. Even in matriarchal societies I doubt that there were ever female Beowulfs. Women lie with gods and demons but they don't go looking for monsters to fight with. Ariadne gave Theseus a clew but the Minotaur was his business.

a gang of unpredictable ruffians by day who turned to enthralling storytellers after dark. "I would sometimes join them, and listen for a great part of the night to some of the finest fairy tales and most romantic legends it has ever been my fortune to hear.

This book tells the story of that moment in time. It is a story of high adventure set during the age of exploration—when Francis Drake, Henry Hudson, and Captain John Smith were expanding the boundaries of the world, and Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Galileo, Descartes, Mercator, Vermeer, Harvey, and Bacon were revolutionizing human thought and expression.

Sylvia: Stay right where you are. The Doctor: You can't come with me. Wilfred: Well you're not leaving me with her. Sylvia: Dad! The Doctor: Fair enough. Sylvia yelling at the TARDIS: Come back here! Come back here, I said! Come back! Donna: Are you shouting at thin air? Sylvia: Yes. Possibly. Yes. -Doctor Who

He who does not risk will never drink champagne.

A good journey begins with knowing where we are and being willing to go somewhere else. RICHARD ROHR

Gubble gubble gubble I'm a mubble in a pubble. I can play I'm anything that's anything. That's MY way.

Mud is to jump in and slide in and yell dodoleedodoleedo.