Adventure Quote by Bob Black

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

— Bob Black

Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

“When an activity is done to win, to advance, to achieve—even if it’s “fun” to do so—it’s not play. It may be a wonderful…

— Bill Burnett

“Play is primal. It’s not a frivolous pastime—it’s a radical act of reclaiming joy and creativity in a world that often feels too serious.”

— Ken Breniman

Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted,…

— Johan Huizinga

So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain joyousness in…

— Janet Suzman

We play because we are wired for joy; it is imperative as human beings.

— John Thorn

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by…

— Ian Bogost

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.

— Robin Marantz Henig

“To be in “play” in this way is one of our concerns to be able to escape self-conscious, intentional activity for comfortable, often purposeless…

— Fernando Flores

Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun.

— Charles Eisenstein