Hiking Quotes - Page 18

• Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Journey, Perfection, Tea

  G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”

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• And I walked, I walked through the light air; I moved with the morning.

  Theodore Roethke

  Morning, Journey, Light

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.110, Anchor

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Journey, Sauntering, Trekking

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Spiritual, Journey, Breathing

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.10, Penguin

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• When you walking along naturally, you're walking in the harmony of the Unborn.

  Bankei Yotaku

  Journey, Harmony, Sauntering

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• Good walking leaves no track behind it.

  Laozi

  Journey, Track, Sauntering

  Laozi, Jingxiong Wu (1997). “Dao teh jing”

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• We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

  Edward Abbey

  Journey, Snakes, Long

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of night draw on, the last gleam of sunshine fading away on the hilltops, the seep serene of the asters, and the long shadows of the mountains thrown across them, till they nearly touched the hithermost shore. At distance hear the murmur of many waterfalls not audible in the day-time. Wished for the moon, but she was dark to me and silent, hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

  Thomas Gray

  Distance, Sunset, Dark

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• I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Journey, Next Day, Bed

  Karl Philipp Moritz (1886). “Travels in England in 1782”

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• With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.

  A. R. Ammons

  Journey, Numbers, Shapes

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.

  Jonathan Waterman

  Sports, Athlete, Climbing

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• Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

  Cindy Ross

  Distance, Home, Adventure

  Cindy Ross (1987). “Journey On the Crest: Walking 2600 Miles from Mexico to Canada”, p.187, Mountaineers Books

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• Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.

  Geoff Nicholson

  Dog, Night, Journey

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• The greatest adventure is what lies ahead

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Future, Adventure

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• Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a short time; and for that they demand a great deal. The struggle is not with the enemy, or a competitor like in sports, but with yourself, with the feelings of weakness and inadequacy. That struggle appeals to me. It is why I became a mountaineer.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Sports, Struggle, Rocks

  Anatoli Boukreev (2015). “Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer”, p.4, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Long distance hiking is not a vacation, it's too long for that. It's not recreation, too much toil and pain involved. It is, we decide, a way of life, a very simplified Spartan way of living ... life on the move ... heavy packs, sweating brow; they make you appreciate warm sunshine, companionship, cool water. The best way to appreciate these things that are precious and important in life it is take them away.

  Cindy Ross

  Pain, Distance, Live Life

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• The more successful the unit, the more difficult it is to make sure that the large company doesn't put the same expectations on it as it does for the rest of the company. When it's a new venture, whether it's outside or inside the business, it's a child. And you don't put a 40-pound pack on a 6-year-old's back when you take her hiking.

  Peter Drucker

  Children, Successful, New Ventures

  Source: www.inc.com

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• I work out all the time. Cardio, resistance and a lot of jogging. I love to go hiking. I'm going to invest this in myself, into my self-worth, into my self-esteem.

  Fergie

  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Work Out

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Mountaineers have often observed a lack of clarity in their mental state at high altitudes; it is difficult for the stupid mind to observe how stupid it is.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Stupid, Mind, Clarity

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• And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

  Kevin Kelly

  Journey, Thinking, Interesting

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• For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness.

  Bob Marshall

  Passion, Journey, Civilization

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• Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

  Thomas Campbell

  Inspirational, Nature, Distance

  Pleasures of Hope pt. 1, l. 7 (1799).

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• The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.

  Robert Morgan

  Character, Voice, Black

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• I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

  James Stewart

  Tickets, Has Beens, Seats

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• It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Journey, Bird

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Thoreau”, p.21, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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