Sigurd T. Olson Quotes

I was a bit of a wild boy - always swimming and exploring the mountains.

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

I think I always wanted to have adventures in my life. I was always kind of a rambunctious kid.

When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.

When I was young, all I wanted to do was to compete, have fun and travel.

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.

I like adventure.

There's nothing like the vast, dark Atlantic to remind you of your mortality. But terror can also be exhilarating.

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

I could never resist the call of the trail.

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

I moved at age 22 to Montana to be able to walk in really wild woods, where the chances of being killed by a bear or mountain lion are not zero.

Yeah, I like going away for camp. It brings out the savagery.

I like to find adventure.

Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.

I crave for adventure. It makes me feel alive and excited. It's a constant tussle between what you want to do and other parameters that aren't in your hands.

Traditional alpinism is to go where the others are not going and to be self-reliant.

The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.

Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.

What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.

I'm a jet jockey and I've always escaped ever since I was a kid. I've always been a weekend type runaway person. Work hard, play hard type thing. It's not been a mid-life thing at all, it's been a habit because I think it changes your environment and how you feel even if it's for the day. It's a good thing.

I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in

I was always restless, always a roving spirit. When I was a little child I was always running away. I never got very far, but they were always having to come and fetch me. Once when I was about six, my father came to get me somewhere I'd gone, and he told me later he'd asked me, "Why are you so restless? Why can't you stay here with us?" and I said to him, "I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.