If you ever needed inspiration....
To travel is not a way of interrupting obligations, it is the true obligation.
Don’t give them what they want. Give them what they never thought possible.
Orson Welles
One day exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books
John Muir
To those who have struggled with them, the mountains reveal beauties they will not disclose to those who make no effort…
And it is because they have so much to give and give it so lavishly to those who will wrestle with them that men love the mountains and go back to them again and again.
Sir Francis Younghusband
Leaving the home is travel. Leaving the heart is adventure
Theo Cruz
Tourism is about going somewhere. Traveling is about being somewhere
Jim Sano
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
Do not be amazed by the true dragon
Dôgen
A traveler has the right to relate and embellish his adventures as he pleases, and it is very impolite to refuse him the deference and applause he deserves
Rudolph Erich Raspe (Creator of Baron Munchausen)
The world only exists in your eyes. .. You can make it as big or as small as you want to.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
For every man the world is a fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the ayes to see them.
Thomas Huxley
All human knowledge is an analogue for seeing, for experiencing, but mostly for going.
Mischa Countryman
The adventure is within us, and he contests for our favor with the social man we are obliged to be.
William Bolitho (Twelve against the gods)
We, like the eagles, were born to be free. Yet we are obliged, in order to live at all, to make a cage of laws for ourselves and to stand on the perch.
William Bolitho (Twelve against the gods)
The adventurer is an outlaw. Adventure must start with running away from home.
William Bolitho (Twelve against the gods)
The adventurer is an individualist and an egoist, a truant from obligations. His road is solitary, there is no room for company on it. What he does, he does for himself.
William Bolitho (Twelve against the gods)
He who does not travel does not know the value of men.
Moorish Proverb
We live and learn, and big mountains are stern teachers.
H.W. Tilman (Two mountains and a river)
To live is to travel
Hans Christian Anderson
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it, when the traveler is settled simply as to his destination and commits himself to his unknown fate and all the anticipations of adventure before him.
Charles D Warner (Baddeck and that sort of things)
A true adventure begins with the proverbial small step and never really ends.
Daniel Terragno
Surely the gods live here. This is no place for man!
Rudyard Kipling at first site of the Himalaya Mountains
Something hidden, Go and find it, Go and look behind the ranges, something lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
Rudyard Kipling (The explorer)
What we get from adventure is just sheer joy, and joy, after all, the end of life.
George Leigh Mallory, Mountaineer
We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money in order to be able to enjoy life. This is what life means and what life is for
George Leigh Mallory, Mountaineer
The meaning of travel is to know the unknown. I’m not very good at accepting other people’s word for what’s out there. If I have half a chance, I want to see what the middle of Greenland looks like, see what Las Vegas looks like. And oddly enough, traveling gives me a greater sense of security. It’s the opposite of the stay-in-home-because-you-might-get-killed view of live. The more I know about the world and the people around me, the safer I feel.
Michael Palin
The traveller is active; he goes strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. “He goes sight seeing”.
Daniel J. Boornstein
Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
Pascal (Penseés)
The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
Pascal (Penseés)
The first love, the first sunrise, the first south sea island, are memories apart.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I craved a little risk, some danger, an untoward event, a vivid discomfort, an experience of my own company, and, in a modest way, the romance of solitude.
Paul Theroux (The Old Patagonian Express)
Adventure travel is a revelation of the world and of the self. All revelation is private and personal, and the most meaningful travel is that which reveals the must to us.
Adventure travel reveals more than tourist travel because it uncovers more novelty, often throwing a subtle light onto an age old theme, or shining on it from a different angle.
Richards Curtis (Finding new adventure)
A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top
Confucius
It is not worthwhile to go around the world to count the cats’ in Zansibar
Henry David Thoreau
In wildness is the salvation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau
A man is rich in proportion of the number of things which he can afford to let alone
Henry David Thoreau
Be careful going in search of adventure- it’s ridiculously easy to find
William Least Heat Moon (Blue highways: A journey into America)
Life is a journey, not a destination
Anonymous
Adventure is a category of experience about which we know less than other cultures have known. It represents a portion of the “language” we no longer speak with skill
Paul Zweig (The Adventurers)
Only those are fit to life who do not fear to die, and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
Theodore Roosevelt (The Great Adventure)
The true traveler has in him something of the explorer’s urge to discover. It does not matter that there is little scope left for original discovery. The important thing is that he should discover things that are new to him and be able to feel the same thrill and excitement as thought they were equally unknown to everyone else.
M.A. Michael (Travellers Quest.)
Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved or the misers who doled it out like pennies through their ant-like days?
Charles Lindbergh
Travel is the retrieval of a mislaid identity.
H.M. Tomlinson (Outward Bound)
Tigers, snakes, lovely but indignant nymphs, and headhunters are not the dangers what kills men in the wilderness is anxiety, under-nourishment, and mosquitoes.
H.M. Tomlinson
A trip, a safari, an expedition is an identity different from all other journeys. It has temperament, personality uniqueness… not two are alike.
We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us
John Steinbeck (travels with Charlie)
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.
Captain Robert F Scott’s final diary entry from his ill-fated 1911-1912 expedition to the south pole
A fantasy is a reality you’re to chicken to live out.
From the film, “Five easy pieces”
Adventures are to the adventurous
Benjamin Disraeli (Coningsby)
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it
Goethe
It is, of course, absurd to think that one reaches a simplified world by moving into lonely places. All that happens is that one reaches a simplified world, with few personal attachments of one’s own. In its less crowded atmosphere, it is easier to see the proper shape of things, since other shapes impinge much less upon them.
Freyra Stark (Remote places)
True wisdom is only found far away from people, out in the great solitude and it is not found in play but only through suffering. Solitude and suffering open the human mind, and therefore a shaman must seek his wisdom there.
-Recorded by Greenland ethnographer Knud Rasmussen during his fifth Thule expedition from Greenland to Siberia 1921-1924
To travel alone is risky business, especially into wilderness; equally risky is to have dreams and not follow them.
There is something exciting in the first start even upon and ordinary journey. The bustle of preparation – the act of departing, which seems like a decided step taken – the prospect of change, and consequent stretching out of the imagination- have at all times the effect of stirring the blood, and giving a quicker motion to the spirits. It may be conceived then with what sensations I set forth on my journey into the artic wilderness
George Back
In the present-day pursuit of naming, knowing, and controlling nature; it’s not customary to speak of spirits, or the spirits of the land
Robert Perkins (Into Great Solitude)
When three people journey together, their number decreases by one.
When one man journeys alone, he finds a companion.
Robert Perkins (Into Great Solitude)
They began to see the necessity of preserving wildness and solitude
Robert Perkins (Into Great Solitude)
I need no passport to get here, yet this is a foreign place as any in the world- more than most, as it is now devoid of permanent human habitation
Robert Perkins (Into Great Solitude)
