Trekking Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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, Hiking, Doubt

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

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

  Laura Riding

  Wall, Journey, Hiking

  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, Hiking

  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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• 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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• 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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• It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Beautiful, Fun, Journey

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• I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

  Mary Oliver

  Notebook, Writing, Journey

  Interview with Renee Olander, www.awpwriter.org. September, 1994.

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• I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Journey, Thinking, Swings

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• I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.

  Gary Snyder

  Girl, Children, Writing

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• The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

  Theodore Roethke

  Cat, Journey, Wind

  Theodore Roethke (2005). “Selected Poems”

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• First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g., by a wall that prevents one from going further), than the walked actualizes some of these possibilities. In that way, he makes them exist as well as emerge. But he also moves them about and he invents others, since the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform, or abandon spatial elements.

  Michel de Certeau

  Wall, Moving, Journey

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.98, Univ of California Press

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• I was generally pro-bat, except when I was trekking through the dark trying not to think about the dire fate of every horror movie character stupid enough to go into the dark with a flashlight and check the fuses.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Stupid, Character, Fate

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• [Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Taken, Moving, Journey

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen”, p.3, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Jeez Louise. I know why rich people are so thin: it's from trekking around their humongous houses the whole time.

  Sophie Kinsella

  People, House, Rich

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• I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of £300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

  Anita Roddick

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

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• Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.

  Michael Kinsley

  Curves, Numbers, Tribes

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• A lot of people think medicine hunting is all Chris trekking through the jungle. Or, for that matter, the chiefs and (male) elders he works with. The men get the headlines, but it's the women behind the scenes who are doing the planting and harvesting and chopping.

  Zoe Helene

  Men, Thinking, Hunting

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• Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Journey, Hiking, Body

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.28, Penguin

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• A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Journey, Hiking, Landscape

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.54, Penguin

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• There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Journey, Destiny, Hiking

  "Tigana". Book by Guy Gavriel Kay, 1990.

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• Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

  Beatrix Potter

  Lying, Flower, Eye

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• Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Nature, Journey, Ecosystems

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.190, Penguin

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