Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Adventure, I well know, is in the heart, not in the view.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

When I was younger I dreamt of intrepid travel and whenever I had some time off I wanted to scuba dive. Nowadays I'm a bit more relaxed but I'd still like to do an Amazonian trek.

So let the way wind up the hill or down, O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown. My heart will keep the courage of the quest, And hope the road’s last turn will be the best.

Travel is not about money, it's about courage.

For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.

A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment.

But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.

I want to travel the world. I want to go everywhere. Everywhere.

I like to travel, and I'm always ready for a new experience.

I love traveling.

The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.

The open road still softly calls.