Trekking Quotes - Page 13

• I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Sorry, Humor

  "Demetri Martin: Wry comic originally planned to be a lawyer". Interview with Chad Jones, www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2014.

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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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• Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.

  Richard Rogers

  Beautiful, Journey, Views

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• When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Flower, Journey, Hiking

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• A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Journey, Men, Cities

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• I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

  Steven Tyler

  Friends, Beautiful, Winter

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• Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

  David Hume

  Reading, Journey, Thinking

  David Hume (1888). “Letters of David Hume to William Strahan”

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• For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Pride, Journey, Thinking

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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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• There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

  Wendell Berry

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

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• I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

  Ernest Hemingway (2009). “A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.

  Jim Butcher

  Journey, Thinking, Jumping

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.256, Penguin

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• Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who fares without any doubt, adhere to his footprints if you do not know the way. Cleave to the footprints of the deer and advance with care that you may reach the musk-gland. By means of such trekking, even if you walk on fire, you will reach the luminous peak.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Blessed, Islamic

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• When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium.

  GZA

  Battle, Brooklyn, Plenty

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• We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

  Thomas Browne

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Journey

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 15

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• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Flower, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.221

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  You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Perseverance, Journey, Feet

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