Post your favorite adventure/exploration/living life quote!

[RememberYourZen]

I dig this one:

"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive." -Jack London

[The Weasel]

"There's a Buddha in every backpack." - The Weasel

[makoboy]

"Streets are straight, houses are square, and our bodies are round. We don't belong there. We belong outside, doing stuff."

and

"If you dont quit your job and move to a ski town this year, you will just be one year older when you do."

Both by Warren Miller

[Johnny Thunder]

May you live in interesting times.

[hoz]

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[Newb]

The most dangerous animal in the forest walks on 2 legs.

[Spogatz]

Where ever you go....There you are...

[SkraM]

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[JAK]

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” - Aristotle

“Adventure is worthwhile.” - Aristotle

[joeboxer]

"We learn to awaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn." -Mr. Thoreau

[gghiker]

I would have both in my sig, but only one fits. Oh, well..

"Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
- John Muir

"Only in the woods can one find solitude without loneliness."
-Robert Traver

[bigcranky]

"When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find in himself a good and sufficient reason for going. This to the practical bum is not difficult. He has a built-in garden of reasons to choose from." (John Steinbeck)

[JAK]

"Its just walkin." - Lone Wolf

[quietly]

Things have a way of working out, despite our best efforts...

[JAK]

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

— John Gillespie Magee, Jr

[Gumbi]

"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."

[Live the Journey]

Though neither are specifically about the woods...

"May you live all the days of your life" - Johnathan Swift

"Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in Rediculous Packaging" - Dar Williams

...Both make me think about being in the woods

[D'Artagnan]

"Pain is temporary; quitting lasts forever." (I heard Lance Armstrong say it but I don't know if it was his originally -- I like to think it was.)

GO YELLOW!

[JAK]

"If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea."
- Joshua Slocum

[JAK]

"No Brain. No Pain."
- Henry Flood, Rower.