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

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

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.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

There’s so many bits on a car these days it’s hard to know where everything is. You have a bit of an idea but if you are behind someone and you suddenly change direction it’s hard to know exactly where the car is.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

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.

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.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

You can’t get too much winter in the winter.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

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

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

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

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

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.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

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

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

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

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

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

I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.