Yvon Chouinard Quotes about Adventure

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It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

Adventure

Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tompkins, Chris Malloy (2013). “180¡ South: Conquerors of the Useless”, p.103, Patagonia

The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.

Yvon Chouinard

Spiritual, Adventure, Emotional

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

Real, Adventure, Journey

Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.174, Penguin

Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.

Yvon Chouinard

Sports, Adventure, Climbing

True adventure begins when everything goes wrong.

Yvon Chouinard

Adventure

The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts

Yvon Chouinard

Travel, Adventure, Patagonia

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

Yvon Chouinard

Adventure, Pride, Rocks

Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.18, Penguin