Trekking Quotes - Page 2

• Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

  Dr. Seuss

  People, Worry, Places You Go

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• To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Morning

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.242, Syracuse University Press

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• Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

  Wallace Stevens

  Truth, Lakes, Hiking

  "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction". Poem by Wallace Stevens, 1942.

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• Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Eye, Exercise

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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, Hiking, Shade

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

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• The world belongs to the energetic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.123

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• Life is already too short to waste on speed.

  Edward Abbey

  Hiking, Waste, Life Is

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

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• To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Hiking, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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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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• To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Nature, Journey, Garden

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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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• A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Work, Simple

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.17, Vintage

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• To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

  Nhat Hanh

  Time, Appreciate, Water

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.1, Parallax Press

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• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

  Gary Snyder

  Adventure, Humility, Walking Meditation

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.19, Counterpoint Press

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• Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Good Morning, Dream

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.150, Routledge

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• Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, People, Places You Go

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• Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Time, Knowledge, Journey

  Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.8, Wesleyan University Press

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• What really helps motivate me to walk are my dogs, who are my best pals. They keep you honest about walking because when it's time to go, you can't disappoint those little faces.

  Wendie Malick

  Dog, Hiking, Pals

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• For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

  "The Confessions".

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• A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.

  Paul Fleischman

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fear, Lonesome, Dread

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 6

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• Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Sitting Still, Feelings, Everyday

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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Travel, Adventure, Passive Voice

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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Travel, Adventure, Memorable

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.85, Vintage

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