MICRO-ADVENTURE

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“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.”
—   H E R M A N   M E L V I L L E   --

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"There is no wealth but life.” 
--   J O H N   R U S K I N   --

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“Break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
—   J O H N   M U I R   --

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"Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.” 
--   A L A S T A I R    H U M P H R E Y S   --

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"Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.” 
--   S I R   E R N E S T   S H A C K L E T O N   --

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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear.”
—   H E N R Y    D A V I D    T H O R E A U   --

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"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” 
--   J O H N   R U S K I N   --

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“Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body; to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to run a mile to see a fire.”
—   R O B E R T    L O U I S    S T E V E N S O N   --

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ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS:
 ​"Into the Empty Quarter" // "The importance of jumping into rivers" // "Adventures great and small"
 "Why Not?" TEDx // "Advice for young people dreaming of adventure" // "MICRO-ADVENTURES"

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(Radiolab: BLISS)

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