Trekking Quotes - Page 7

• I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

  William O. Douglas

  Nature, Adventure, Journey

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• The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.

  Leslie Stephen

  Journey, Practice, Hiking

  Leslie Stephen (2012). “Studies of a Biographer”, p.265, Cambridge University Press

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• Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Journey, Hiking, Walking Home

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.3, 谷月社

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• .... the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is clear, the step is firm, and a day's exertion always makes the evening's repose thoroughly enjoyable.

  David Livingstone

  Eye, Exercise, Journey

  David Livingstone (2012). “The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868”, p.42, tredition

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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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• We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.

  William Barnes

  Pride, Journey, Feet

  William Barnes (1869). “Poems of Rural Life in Common English”, p.132

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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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• I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Children, Journey, Hiking

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

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• If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.

  Edward Hoagland

  Sports, Journey, Rivers

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• For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Pace, Snail, Strolling

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

  John Millington Synge

  Journey, Hiking, Islands

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Aran Islands and Connemara”, p.39, Mercier Press Ltd

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• Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.

  Black Elk

  Giving, Earth, Give Me Strength

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

  Michel de Certeau

  Journey, Hiking, Space

  "The Practice of Everyday Life".

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• Hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

  Jamie Luner

  Hiking, Mountain Climbing, Let Me

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

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• The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Art, Journey, Men

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.135

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• Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.

  Colin Fletcher

  Journey, Hiking, Space

  Colin Fletcher (2014). “The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher”, p.105, Vintage

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• Mostly, two miles an hour is good going.

  Colin Fletcher

  Journey, Two, Hiking

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• There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
  There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.
  O traveller, if you are in search of that
  Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.

  Rumi

  Journey, Hiking, Soul

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “There Is A Life-Force Within Your Soul”

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• Make your feet your friend.

  James M. Barrie

  Feet, Hiking, Mountain Climbing

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Sentimental Tommy (Annotated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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• And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.

  Hart Crane

  Beautiful, Journey, Hands

  Brom Weber, Hart Crane (1970). “Hart Crane: a biographical and critical study”

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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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• A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

  David McCord

  Health, Exercise, Men

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• All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

  Hal Borland

  Time, Journey, Discovery

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• What you're missing is that the path itself changes you.

  Julian Smith

  Journey, Hiking, Missing

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• Of all exercises, walking is the best.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Exercise, Journey

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.13, Modern Library

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