Trekking Quotes - Page 6

• You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Graduation, Encouraging, Being Single

  Dr. Seuss (2017). “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Philosophy, Heart, Journey

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• There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.

  Seneca the Elder

  Journey, Men, Hiking

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• I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

  Zhuangzi

  Passion, Journey, Walking Away

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• I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

  Violette Leduc

  Summer, Journey, Fire

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• Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Sunset, Journey, Garden

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• Farewell we call to hearth and hall! Though wind may blow and rain may fall. We must away ere the break of day. Far over wood and mountain tall.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Rain, Fall, Farewell

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.

  David Douglas

  Moving, Journey, Hiking

  David Douglas (1987). “Wilderness sojourn: notes in the desert silence”, Harper San Francisco

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• Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave behind that is important. I think the matter of simplicity goes further than just food, equipment, and unnecessary gadgets; it goes into the matter of thoughts and objectives as well. When in the wilds, we must not carry our problems with us or the joy is lost.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Thinking, Journey, Hiking

  Sigurd F Olson (2012). “Reflections from the North Country”, p.117, Knopf

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• To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.

  William O. Douglas

  Beach, Nature, Journey

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1960). “My Wilderness THE PACIFIC WEST”

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• The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

  Al Smith

  Sunshine, Journey, Hiking

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• Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Nature, Common Sense

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.186, Random House

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• The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.

  Philippe Petit

  Journey, Sky, Hiking

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• The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.

  Horace Kephart

  Home, Journey, Men

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• It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.

  Horace Kephart

  Happy, Blessing, Journey

  Horace Kephart (1910). “The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilderness”

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• In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Journey, Cities, Hiking

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

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• You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

  Carol Burnett

  Falling In Love, Journey, Order

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• A woman is as young as her knees.

  Mary Quant

  Journey, Hiking, Knees

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• We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

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• Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but which a high moments seems to start up again from the deepest rhythms of my own body. How often have I had this longing for an infinite walk - of going unimpeded, until the movement of my body as I walk fell into the flight of streets under my feet - until I in my body and the world in its skin of earth were blended into a single act of knowing.

  Alfred Kazin

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

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• If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.

  Bruce Barton

  Journey, Hiking, Brain

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• We must walk before we run.

  George Henry Borrow

  Running, Journey, Hiking

  George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: the scholar--the gypsy--the priest”, p.15

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• The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Boys, Night

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• Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the presence of towering mountains or sweeping plains without getting a little of the high moral standard of Nature infused into his being ... with eyes opened, the great story of the Earth's forming, the history of a tree, the life of a flower or the activities of some small animal will all unfold themselves to the recreationist.

  Arthur Carhart

  Flower, Eye, Animal

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• The path up and down is one and the same.

  Heraclitus

  Journey, Hiking, Path

  c.500 BC Quoted in Kirk, Raven and Schofield (eds) The Presocratic Philosophers (1957), ch.6.

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