Peak Inspiration:  Adventure Quotes

"Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people." – Mark Twain

"To be out under the sky on our own two feet awakens something older, more content within us, a wild creature inside itching to break out, who knows where to go to heal all ills."

-Henry Shukman, New York TImes, January 6, 2008 article

"To Walk a Landscape Is to Know It"

"Comes over me an absolute necessity to move.  And what is more, to move in some particular direction.  A double necessity then:  to get on the move, and to know whither."

- D.H. Lawrence's "Sea and Sardinia"

"Going to the woods is going home." – John Muir

"Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses."  – Aristotle

"Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow." 

– Henry David Thoreau

"The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.  The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk." – Mark Twain

"Of course I have played outdoor games. 

I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris."  – Oscar Wilde

"Now shall I walk

Or shall I ride?

"Ride," Pleasure said:

"Walk," Joy replied."  – W.H.Davies

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did.  So throw off the bow lines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.                    Catch the trade winds in your sails.” – Mark Twain

Dust of Snow

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
-- Robert Frost

“One must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”
– Katharine Hepburn

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
– Carl Sagan

“Along with milk and vegetables kids need a steady diet of rocks and worms.”

“I’ve learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”
– Anon.

“I wish to begin this summer well, to do something in it worthy of it and of me; to transcend my daily routine; to have my immortality now in the quality of my daily life!”
– Henry David Thoreau

“At dusk the three of us encountered an elderly lady and her beagle hiking toward us. Teetering along on a walking stick, she wore a motoring cap and held a bunch of wildflowers. I said hello and asked her where she was going. She replied in Welsh,

“Rydw i yna yn barod.”
We looked to Erica for a translation. “She said, ‘I’m already there.”
-“A Ramble in Wales,” from National Geographic Traveler

"Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before leading wherever I choose."
– Walt Whitman

"Life is either a daring adventure - or nothing."
– Helen Keller

“Those things are better which are perfected by nature than
those which are finished by art.”
– Cicero

“Walking is man’s best medicine.”
– Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, 460-377 B.C.

“Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? Have you recken’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems….”
– Walt Whitman, from “Song of Myself”

"The race goes not always to the swift …
but to those who keep on running."

"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

"If you're not riding the wave of change .. you'll find yourself beneath it."

"A ship in the harbor is safe… but that's not what ships were made for."

"Your attitude almost always determines your altitude in life."

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