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Adventure Quotes by Yvon Chouinard
- Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.…
- We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in…
- The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts
- Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.
- It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.
- True adventure begins when everything goes wrong.
- The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.
More Adventure Quotes
- 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