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“I spent days and nights staring at the blank page, searching the deepest corners of my mind: who have I been, what have I seen, what did I learn? I thought about all the nights I've spent outside, ...”
“Leave no path untaken.”
“When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with me so it was not a "make sure I have everything" glance. It was more like a parting glance to Phi...”
“With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.”
“Part of the urge to explore is a desire to become lost.”
“While National Geographic magazine had given me a taste of the world, the three-dimensional details of this moment - the tickle of the rain drops, the suck sound of my feet in the mud, the challeng...”
“But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller. I don't have the slight...”
“You're not traveling if you already know everything.”
“Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient...”
“Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us and that they always have a shoulder for us to cry on or relieve stress. They take our minds away...”
“Some journeys don't have endings, they lead to new beginnings. These are the journeys that lead to great adventures!”
“Each man must make is own sacred journey.”
“What a sacred journey?”
“by travelling to all the corners of the globe it allows me to further define the ever changing world we live in, which in turn helps me to redefine myself, therefore it is an important process towa...”
“In any age, there is no shortage of people willing to embark on a hazardous adventure. Columbus and Magellan filled eight ships between them for voyages into the void. One hundred and fifty years a...”
“Travel doesn't become adventure until you leave yourself behind.”
“I would rather rudder”
“As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a...”
“He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.”
“But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.”
