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Adventure Quotes by John Muir
- It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.
- What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.
- Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are…
- How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A…
- Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!
- Most people are on the world, not in it.
- I never saw a discontented tree.
- None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
- 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…
- In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
- The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
- I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
- Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
- There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties
- One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
- This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is…
- Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing
- Going to the mountains is going home.
- I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I…
- 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…
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- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.… — David Attenborough
- The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Saint Augustine
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. — Ansel Adams
- I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for. — Christian Bale
- To die will be an awfully big adventure. — James M. Barrie
- Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. — Edward Abbey
- Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas… — Mary Ritter Beard
- Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and… — Ezra Taft Benson