A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
— Alfred North Whitehead
History
Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
Gaily bedight,In search of Eldorado.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Literature
"Over the Mountains"If you seek for Eldorado!"
— Edgar Allan Poe
Literature
... I plan to travel to Mars and make it my home.
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
— G. K. Chesterton
Philosophy
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it is there." Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.
— John F. Kennedy
Inspirational
The world's a fine place for those who go out to take it; there's lots of unknown stuff in it yet. I'll fill your lap, my pretty, so full of treasures that you shan't know yourself. A man wasn't meant to sit at home...
— John Galsworthy
Opportunity