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
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
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
Second to the right and then straight on till morning.
I'll teach you to jump on the wind's back and then away we go.
— J. M. Barrie
Inspirational