# Quote — Poul Anderson, The Enemy Stars

> You can have more adventure in an hour’s walk through a forest than in a year on a spaceship.

- Author: [Poul Anderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson.md)
- Book: [The Enemy Stars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-enemy-stars.md)
- Page: 103
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson#The_Enemy_Stars_(1959)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-enemy-stars/you-can-have

## More from this book

> I do not think the coerced mind ever really learns an art.

p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-enemy-stars/i-do-not.md)

> I’m afraid I’m not a convert or anything. I still see the same blind cosmos governed by the same blind laws. But suddenly it matters. It matters terribly, and means something. What, I haven’t figured out yet. I probably never will. But I have a reason for living, or for dying if need be. Maybe that’s the whole purpose of life: purpose itself. I can’t say. But I expect to enjoy the world a lot more.

p. 129 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-enemy-stars/im-afraid-im-not.md)

> Then they died.
>
> And other men came after them. Wars flamed up and burned out; the howling peoples dwelt in smashed cities and kindled their fires with books.

p. 1 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-enemy-stars/then-they-died.md)