Quotes about Adventure
The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours …but it is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.
— Henry David Thoreau
Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.
— Henry David Thoreau
Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness...
— Henry David Thoreau
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have learned that the swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.
— Henry David Thoreau
It matters not where or how far you travel,--the farther commonly the worse,--but how much alive you are.
— Henry David Thoreau
Not till we are completely lost or turned around, do we begin to find ourselves.
— Henry David Thoreau
We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return—prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.
— Henry David Thoreau
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
— Henry David Thoreau
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.
— Henry David Thoreau
I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
— Herman Melville
Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men.
— Herman Melville