Wander Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

  William Wordsworth

  Voice, Bird, Cuckoos

  'To the Cuckoo' (O blithe new-comer!, 1807)

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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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• The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention. Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration. To forget this is to court despair.

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

  Inspiration, Frustration, Light

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”

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• I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seems careless of having anything to do with — they hardly dare talk in my company for fear I shoud mention them in my writings & I find more pleasure in wandering the fields then in mixing among my silent neighbours who are insensible of everything but toiling & talking of it & that to no purpose.

  John Clare

  Writing, Men, Talking

  "Letters".

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• By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death

  Edmond Jabes

  Light

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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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• I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.

  Carol Matas

  Strong, Past, Trying

  Carol Matas (1997). “After the War”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of wandering about in the open air to examine the architecture, the spectacles, and the stuff for sale, will still hanker after surprises and strangers. That the city as a whole is one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly places in the world suggests something of the problems to be faced, but that its attraction is a pedestrian oasis suggests the possibility of recovering the spaces in which walking is viable.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Garden, Vegas, Oasis

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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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• In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a lid on this racket. No telling what I'll do then. Every moment I'm thrown by your story. One moment it's happy, and I'm singing. One moment it's sad, and I'm weeping. It turns bitter, and I pull away. But then you spill a little grace, and just like that, I'm all light. It's not so bad, this arrangement, actually.

  Rumi

  Light, Grace, Singing

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• For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human order, creativity is neither a rational deductive process nor the irrational wandering of the undisciplined mind but the emergence of beauty as mysterious as the blossoming of a field of daisies out of the dark Earth.

  Thomas Berry

  Beauty, Creativity, Dark

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.31, Crown

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• It's sort of like a mockery in a way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers when there is something bitter to taste. And to pretend there isn't is foolish. I mean the ones that wonder around and know, at the same time, and yet wear flowers, and they deserve to wear flowers. And they've earned their smile...you can tell by people's eyes.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Flower, Mean, Eye

  "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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• Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings

  Henry Mayhew

  Aggravation, Sake, Nightfall

  Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

  Bill Bryson

  Couple, Cities, Islands

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.15, VNR AG

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• Several elements of the ADD mind favor creativity....As mentioned earlier, the term 'attention deficit' is a misnomer. It is a matter of attention inconsistency. While it is true that the ADD mind wanders when not engaged, it is also the case that the ADD mind fastens on to its subject fiercely when it is engaged. A child with ADD may sit for hours meticulously putting together a model airplane.

  Edward Hallowell

  Children, Airplane, Creativity

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• I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

  William Carey

  Prayer, Missionary, Tire

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• [In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Hiking, Looks, Stories

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.111, Penguin

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• Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.

  Gaston Rebuffat

  Journey, Hiking, Rocks

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• Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Two, Monsters

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• Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lazy, Laziness, Melancholy

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.843

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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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• Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.

  George Sterling

  Heart, Eye, San Francisco

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