2,981 Quotes About Adventure

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

I never saw a discontented tree.

Most people are on the world, not in it.

What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.