Mark Jenkins Quotes

#1. Stop worrying about whether they can handle it. You want the truth? Your kid is hardier than you are ... Kids are tough.

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#2. Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

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#3. At a certain age [ ... ] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.

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#4. 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.

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#5. Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

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#6. Kids are natural little outdoor people. It is we, the adults, who turn them into indoor people. If you don't get of fyour computer, why should they?

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#7. Give your kids responsibility. Once outside, let them lead, who cares if you get lost; it might be the best trip you've ever had.

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#8. Adventure becomes hubris when it blinds you to the suffering of the human beings next to you.

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#9. Interfacing street sculpture in public space creates an installation environment that turns regular space into art space. Signs and people and everything around a street sculpture-they all become part of it. A two-dimensional work, being confined to surfaces, doesn't have as much of a capacity.

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#10. Wanderlust is incurable.

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