Hiking Quotes - Page 6

• The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Mountain, Inspired, Climbers

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• The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.

  Edward Abbey

  Home, Journey, Keys

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("Walking", p. 205), 1977.

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• As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.

  Bill Vaughan

  Baseball, Fit, Feet And Walking

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• ...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

  Jonathan Waterman

  Sweet, Inspirational Life, Short Life

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• The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least.

  Lisa Morgan

  Crazy, Climbing, People

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• I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.

  Will Rogers

  Eye, Race, Legs

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• Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

  Jules Renard

  Bird, Mind, Body

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.266, Tin House Books

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• Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Ambition, Climbing, Practice

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• Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

  Ed Viesturs

  Sports, Nature, Travel

  Ed Viesturs, David Roberts (2011). “The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak”, p.87, Crown

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• Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

  Dave Barry

  Inspiration, Reality, Camping

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Shade, Too Late

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.1, 谷月社

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• My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Life, Birthday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now shall I walk or shall I ride? 'Ride,' Pleasure said; 'Walk,' Joy replied.

  W. H. Davies

  Life, Joy, Pleasure

  William Henry Davies, “The Best Friend”

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• I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

  Hamlin Garland

  Nature, Sunset, Fire

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• Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

  Hamlin Garland

  Nature, Fall, Cities

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• The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.

  Jack Butler Yeats

  Summer, Humorous, Winter

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• My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

  Hamlin Garland

  Love, Peace, Nature

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• Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor - or you may get hurt, which is major. Instead of years of meditation, you have this activity that forces you to relax and monitor your breathing and tread that line between living and dying. When you climb, you always are confronted with the edge. Hey, if it was just like climbing a ladder, we all would have quit a long time ago.

  Duncan Ferguson

  Hurt, Men, Climbing

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• If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, Feet And Walking, Should

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• Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Native American, Waste

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• Life is already too short to waste on speed.

  Edward Abbey

  Waste, Life Is, Speed

  "The Journey Home : Some Words in Defense of the American West" by Edward Abbey, (p. 205), 1977.

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• I was the world in which I walked.

  Wallace Stevens

  Journey, World, Sauntering

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.90, Vintage

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• I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, Journey, Shoes

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Sleep, Air

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding.

  Amy Yasbeck

  Girl, Sarcastic, Heart

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