Kyle

“The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.”
― Ernesto Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

“Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.”
― Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

“Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.”
― Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

“He let himself be led into the night, into the forest, into the blind secret wordless, thoughtless country.”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund