Adventure Quote by James Salter

Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and…

— Louis Bernacchi

True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the…

— Amy Harmon

We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful…

— Luther Standing Bear

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Trudging alone along that black road, sometimes in the teeth of wind and rain, and watching the white distant gleam of convolvulus through the…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

There is nothing in the world like going out onto an untouched, open, virgin mountain slope drenched under a thick blanket of new powder…

— Hans Gmoser

I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park -…

— Aron Ralston

A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of…

— Jack London

I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same…

— Wilfred Thesiger

It was just on a whole other level, getting to experience and ride that terrain. We spent a fair amount of time in the…

— Travis Rice

“We had proceeded but a few days, coasting the crushing capes of rock that every where seemed to run out in a diablerie of…

— Harriet Prescott Spofford