Isak Dinesen Quotes

I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.

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.

I love a good safari.

I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.

I rode 300 miles through the forest and ate all sorts of strange food. And every time 'Torak' did something new, like swimming with killer whales or kayaking, I thought I'd better go and do it.

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.

I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.

I love being outdoors and trekking around.

I'm equally happy bouncing across the African savannah in an old Land Rover as I am staying in a luxury resort in The Maldives. Travel and the wilderness excite me.

And I'm wondering where the lions are.

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

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

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.

There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows

To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?

What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.

If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari once again.

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

What I was really overwhelmed with by Africa was its tremendous natural beauty; I got to go to some pretty amazing places. Every other weekend we got a day or two off and go on a safari or the natural wonders of Africa and if anyone gets the opportunity to go there, it's something you have to do in your lifetime.

Canoe + waterfall = I don't go camping anymore.

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long