Quotes About Adventure

Somebody asked me if I am looking for something. I am looking for everything

Everyone scoffs at a pioneer. Did you ever stop to consider the person who first discovered milk? It took a lot of nerve to be the first man to pull on a cow's nipple and drink whatever came out. You can bet his friends never let him live that down. And yet, a million years later, nobody thinks anything of drinking cow juice.

You must enter the Forest Adventurous at its darkest point, where there is no path. Where there's a path, it is someone else's path. Each human being is a unique phenomenon. The idea is to find your own pathway to bliss.

Summer's ending and the closest thing I've had to an adventure was a Google search of Baja California.

She gained fame in 1895 when she became the third woman to scale the Matterhorn—and the second to do so in trousers, at a time when women could be arrested for wearing them in public.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives." -William Wallace

Not a bird, not a plane, a girl - just without a grain of gravity.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.  

Let others sing of knights and paladinsIn aged accents and untimely words.

Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.

In human affairs there is no snug harbor, no rest short of the grave. We are forever setting forth afresh across new and stormy seas, or into outer space.

The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally.

Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean... [John Muir to Samuel Hall Young]

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

As the Spanish proverb says, "He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.