Adventure Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling…

— Aisha Hinds

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered,…

— James F. Cooper

When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you…

— Alan Greenspan

Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way…

— John Strachan

Canada join the United States? Where would young Canadians run off to for adventure? Where would Americans run to escape?

— Peter Jennings

“Because we remain a land of hope and opportunity, and new Canadians see in our unfinished destiny an image of their own unfinished destines.”

— Michael Ignatieff

The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us…

— Amilcar Cabral

“For more than a century-and-a-half, Europeans had been killing North American Indians with firewater… Now, in the first decades of the nineteenth century, Canada’s…

— Earle Gray

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

— Marshall McLuhan

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself…

— Robertson Davies

While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada…

— Bobby Hull