Quotes about Adventure
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
— Robert Frost
Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.
— Henry David Thoreau
The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
— Edmund Hillary
I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
— Ernest Hemingway
Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.
— Jim Rohn
Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read.
— John Wooden
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
— Victor Hugo