Mark Jenkins > Quotes

“Wanderlust is incurable.”
― Mark Jenkins, The Hard Way: Stories of Danger, Survival, and the Soul of Adventure

“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.”
― Mark Jenkins

“Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.”
― Mark Jenkins

“Maps encourage boldness. They’re like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.”
― Mark Jenkins

“Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.”
― Mark Jenkins, The Hard Way: Stories of Danger, Survival, and the Soul of Adventure

“Adventure becomes hubris when it blinds you to the suffering of the human beings next to you.”
― Mark Jenkins, A Man's Life: Dispatches from Dangerous Places

“Climbing mountains is an act I happen to love, but it is only one form of adventure. There are thousands. In fact, there's one for every human with the passion to push personal boundaries.”
― Mark Jenkins, A Man's Life: Dispatches from Dangerous Places

“At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.”
― Mark Jenkins, The Hard Way: Stories of Danger, Survival, and the Soul of Adventure

“I didn’t die right away, but I wish I had. God, I wish I had.”
― Mark Jenkins, So Shall You Reap: A twist-packed whodunit bursting with suspense and shocking surpises