Adventure Quote by Gavin Douglas

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they…

— Gustave Flaubert

On many long journeys have I gone. And waited, too, for others to return from journeys of their own. Some return; some are broken;…

— Yoda

The willed recovery of what's been lost - often forcibly, I suppose - is what keeps me going. It is this reason I found…

— Kevin Young

All my books draw heavily on my own experiences, and these are not just places I have gone to on holiday, they're locations I…

— Steve Backshall

I travel a lot; I go hunting for antiques.

— Dimple Kapadia

If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you…

— Anonymous

I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and…

— John Muir

Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...

— George Ellery Hale

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

— Mark Twain

The world much too little time was given to me to wander a land so full of wonders.

— Mariana Fulger

Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I…

— Edward G. Robinson

Archives can be inspiring but overwhelming. You have to forget them - especially when the whole world has been knocking them off. Everyone shops…

— Patrick Cox