Hiking Quotes - Page 20

• It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

  Eddie Mathews

  Hitting, Slumps, Balls

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• Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

  Edward Abbey

  Suicidal, Journey, Should Have

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Walking Away, Entrepreneur, Illness

  Soren Kierkegaard's letter to Henriette Kierkegaard (1847), as quoted in Soren Kierkegaard "Letters and Documents" (translated by Henrik Rosenmeier), www.huffingtonpost.com. 1978.

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• Management by Walking Around

  David Packard

  Journey, Management, Sauntering

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• Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

  Henry Hazlitt

  Thinking, Journey, Feet

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• From my mother came the idea that going down to the sea repaired the spirit. That is where she walked when she was sad or worried or lonely for my father. If she had been crying, she came back composed; if she had left angry with us, she returned in good humor. So we naturally believed that there was a cleansing, purifying effect to be had; that letting the fresh wind blow through you mind and spirits as well as your hair and clothing purged black thoughts; that contemplating the ceaseless motion of the waves calmed a raging spirit.

  Robert MacNeil

  Mother, Lonely, Father

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• Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.

  Laura Riding

  Wall, Journey, Sound

  Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding (1938). “Collected Poems”

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• For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.

  Conrad Aiken

  Journey, Self, Profound

  Conrad Aiken (1963). “The morning song of Lord Zero: poems old and new”

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• There there is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life. Simplicity is part of it. Cutting the cackle. Transportation reduced to leg - or arm - power, eating irons to one spoon. Such simplicity, together with sweat and silence, amplify the rhythms of any long journey, especially through unknown, untattered territory. And in the end such a journey can restore an understanding of how insignificant you are -- and thereby set you free.

  Colin Fletcher

  Cutting, Journey, Iron

  Colin Fletcher (1997). “River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea”, Knopf

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• I love being outdoors, water sports, hiking - really, anything that keeps me moving!

  Witney Carson

  Sports, Moving, Love Is

  "ORIGIN Series: Dancing with the Stars dancer Witney Carson". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 16, 2015.

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• Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months working eight hours a day, five days a week, in order to earn enough money to be able to come back to a comfortable home in the evening and sit in front of a TV screen and watch the two-dimensional image of some guy talking about a book he has written on a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains.

  Colin Fletcher

  Real, Book, Home

  Colin Fletcher, Clem L. Rawlins (2002). “The Complete Walker IV”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.

  Charles Reznikoff

  Tired, Night, Journey

  Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.157, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive.

  Gary Snyder

  Journey, Order, Ecosystems

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• Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

  Diane Ackerman

  Struggle, Journey, Garden

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• If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.

  Wendell Berry

  Journey, Where We Come, Sauntering

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• The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.

  Gary Snyder

  Journey, Lessons, Sauntering

  Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison (2010). “The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and the Practice of the Wild”, p.13, Counterpoint Press

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• Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.... What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Journey, Thinking, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.395, Penguin

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• I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself.

  Nanao Sakaki

  Journey, Mountain, Sauntering

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• Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which you manfully turned the steps of your abandonment ... It is your business to leave all that you have know altogether behind you, and no man has eyes at the back of his head - go forward.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Eye, Journey, Men

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• Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down under the ground.

  Bob Dylan

  Brother, Sleep, Journey

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• I like walking on the edge.

  Levon Helm

  Journey, Sauntering, Trekking

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• The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning" phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path.

  Michel de Certeau

  Art, Journey, Detours

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.100, Univ of California Press

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• I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to.

  Gerald Stern

  Dream, Journey, Blue

  Gerald Stern (1981). “The red coal: poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Journey, Knowing, Mind

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.27, Penguin

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• Tourism is the sum total of the travel experience. It is not just what happens at the destination. It involves everything that a person sees and does from the time he or she leaves home until the vacation is over. Getting there can be half the fun, but frequently it is not. There are many great destinations in America, but, unfortunately, there are very few great journeys left, which is why it is in the interest of the tourism industry to encourage the development of greenways, heritage corridor, bike paths, hiking trails, and other forms of alternative transportation.

  Ed McMahon

  Fun, Home, Journey

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