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Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.
Sep 10, 2025
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
Live your life to the fullest.
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.
While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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.
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
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.
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
Take only memories, leave only footprints.
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do