Alastair Humphreys famous quotes

You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.
-- Alastair Humphreys

#Needs #Sides #Wilderness

See the opportunities for adventures, not the constraints that get in the way.
-- Alastair Humphreys

#Adventure #Opportunity #Way

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.
-- Alastair Humphreys

#Ambition #Half #Tiptoes

Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or sleep under the stars, or perhaps share a whisky at a small country inn in order to remind yourself what matters most to you in life.
-- Alastair Humphreys

#Country #Stars #Sleep

Adventure is just about doing something you’ve never done— doing it with enthusiasm and curiosity: doing something difficult with passion.
-- Alastair Humphreys

#Passion #Adventure #Curiosity

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

You don't need vision to be a visionary.

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .

Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.