Adventure Quote by Jack Williamson

“Perhaps that was just a hunch." Barbee shivered again. He knew that he himself possessed what he called the "nose for news" - an…

— Jack Williamson

“And such was the return to which he had looked through the weary perspective of many years, and for which he had undergone so…

— Charles Dickens

“the southern edge of town. Tim was a liver-colored bird dog, the pet of Maycomb. “What’s he doing?” “I don’t know, Scout. We better…

— Harper Lee

“It struck Glenn how their whole life had been made up of such little things.”

— Jeff Hirsch

“Now mind is clear as a cloudless sky. Time then to make a home in wilderness. What have I done but wander with my…

— Allen Ginsberg

“As Gabe continued to speak, he sounded to be a cheerful and intelligent person, two attributes I have commonly found associated with people who…

— Daniel J. Rice

“He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was…

— Emily Dickinson

“The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of welcome or…

— Algernon Blackwood

“A howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. -”

— Henry David Thoreau

“History was about to intervene: real adventure, real escape and adulthood were lurking, laughing, round the corner”

— Kate Morton

“He talked about terrible meetings in lonely places, of cyclopean ruins in the heart of the Maine woods beneath which vast staircases led down…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“[Peggotty] gave me one piece of intelligence which affected me very much, namely, that there had been a sale of the furniture at our…

— Charles Dickens