Quotes About Adventure

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.

Going to the mountains is going home.

I have lived. Now there must be others.

Unfinished Poem I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

I guarantee that tomorrow there will be something that will happen, that has never happened before. That is something to look forward too. And the best part of tomorrow is that there is another one just a day later.

There was no way possible that I was going to have a life and not live it.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

I just want to hear something I haven't heard before

You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot For taste of your elegant pride I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe But at least I'm enjoying the ride

I may be going to hell in a bucket Babe, at least I'm enjoying the ride.

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

But we also need stories. Great stories.

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

Together we kill many chicken, eat cat every day, howl at moon, oh boy.

I wonder if more students would do better in elementary and high school if teachers taught more about individual exploration of subjects and less about sliding smoothly along observational ruts. Exploration is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is fun.

Exploration is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is fun.

As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

Forget trying to find an old bone or two, seek the damned Holy Grail! You may fail, probably will based on historical record, but you'll fail grandly!

Learning to surf is a mixture of respect, timing, balance, boldness, and humility, with bits of pure elation

the sea showed that it can be a deadly enemy and that those who go to sea for pleasure must do so in the full knowledge that they may encounter dangers of the highest order.

Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.