2,981 Quotes About Adventure

The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.

Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.

In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.

Roald Amundsen says that ‘Adventure is just bad planning.’ In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tales of adventure that he ended up destroying them a week after they were finished, embarrassed at the thought that he had penned them.

Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage.

My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts.