Hiking Quotes - Page 24

• A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Spring, Years, Cottages

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• If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.

  Edward Hoagland

  Sports, Journey, Rivers

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• You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.

  Gerry Cooney

  Real, Men, Waiting

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

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• A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

  John Millington Synge

  Journey, Islands, Rocks

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Aran Islands and Connemara”, p.39, Mercier Press Ltd

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• You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

  Ella Maillart

  Boys, Climbing, Laughing

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• It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

  Michel de Certeau

  Journey, Space, Giving

  "The Practice of Everyday Life".

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• The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Art, Journey, Men

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.135

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• Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long - long since had ye numbered out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground. When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it, to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rose-buds of delights; and have taken a few turns on it, come back strengthened and refreshed.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sweet, Taken, Men

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...”, p.94

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• Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!

  William Jacob Holland

  Journey, Men, Walking Meditation

  William Jacob Holland (1904). “The moth book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the moths of North America”

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• From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.

  Petrarch

  Journey, Mountain Peaks, World

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• To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.

  Thomas Traherne

  Moving, Eye, Journey

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• To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

  Joseph Joubert

  Journey, Arguing, Reason

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• The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Journey, Doubt, Pace

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.65, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

  Paracelsus

  Book, Journey, Physicians

  The Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, vol. xviii. (p. 234),

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• When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is in truth a ritual of renewal and revival on an intimate scale - a small rebirth of well-being on a daily basis.

  Robert Fulghum

  Dog, Latin, Journey

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• Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

  Steven Wright

  Fun, Work, Distance

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

  Greg Child

  Climbing, Mountain, Answers

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