When you’re climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

I love traveling all over the world; but it’s true: there’s nothing like home.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Gardening is not a rational act.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!