Hiking Quotes - Page 8

Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.

William Vogt

Philosophy, Journey, Ideas

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Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire sweater unraveled into a pile of string. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost.

Cheryl Strayed

Knitting, Sweaters, Effort

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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

Gale Norton

Crazy, Schedules, Facts

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You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Stanislaw Lem

Climbing, Mountain, Summit

STANISLAW LEM (1974). “THE CYBERIAD”

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Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

Honore de Balzac

Philosophical, Journey, Men

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No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.

Mary Russell Mitford

Journey, Each Day, Faces

Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.11

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Putting facts by the thousands, into the world, the toes take off with an appealing squeak which the thumping heel follows confidentially, the way men greet men. Sometimes walking is just such elated pumping.

Lyn Hejinian

Men, Journey, Toes

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I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

William O. Douglas

Nature, Adventure, Journey

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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

Oksana Baiul

Sports, Skating, Feels

"Oksana Baiul: Online Interview". Interview, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

Denis Kearney

Men, Two, Mountain

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I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

John Keegan

Thinking, Mountain, Valleys

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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

William Ralph Inge

Trust No One, Challenges, Bereavement

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Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.

Thomas Kinkade

Sunset, Journey, Garden

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Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.

Jonathan Carroll

Running, Rain, Rivers

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It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.

Horace Kephart

Happy, Blessing, Journey

Horace Kephart (1910). “The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilderness”

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As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me.

Woody Guthrie

Journey, Land, Valleys

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But all of this success came at the end of a long climb.

Michael N. Castle

Congratulations, Long, Ends

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The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

Mike Pence

War, Reality, Midwest

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Sleep, Caring, Men

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I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

Max Irons

Reading, Free Diving, Favorites Things

"Face Time | Max Irons". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. February 2, 2012.

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I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer.

Jessica Szohr

Soccer, Yoga, Snowboarding

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so.

Richard Bach

Long, Perspective, Miracle

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The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an alleory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest).

Rebecca Solnit

Journey, Mountain, Study

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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

George Eliot

Hatred, Ladders, Literature

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.179, Open Road Media

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As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me. This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

Woody Guthrie

New York, Journey, Islands

"This Land Is Your Land" (song) (1956)

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