Hiker Quotes

• If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.

  Andy Weir

  Blood, Earthquakes, Cities

  "Fictional character: Mark Watney". "The Martian", www.imdb.com. 2015.

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• Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

  Ed Viesturs

  Sports, Nature, Travel

  Ed Viesturs, David Roberts (2011). “The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak”, p.87, Crown

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• The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Encouraging, Wisdom, Hiking

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• You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

  Frank A. Clark

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Hiking, Ends, Trails

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

  John Muir

  Nature, Flower, Adventure

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.427, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Going to the mountains is going home.

  John Muir

  Home, Adventure, Hiking

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.721, Library of America

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Witty, Fear

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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• Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

  Greg Child

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

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• After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Hiking, Usual, Feet And Walking

  G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed”

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• It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

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  Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

  John Muir

  Travel, Home, Tired

  "Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays".

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• My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Father, Climbing

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• Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

  Steven Wright

  Fun, Work, Distance

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  In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

  John Muir

  Nature, Adventure, Garden

  John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.67, e-artnow

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  The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

  John Muir

  Nature, Adventure, Garden

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Hiking, Mountain, Lost

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• I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.

  Rosalia de Castro

  Travel, Adventure, Hiking

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• I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

  Rosalia de Castro

  Travel, Adventure, Hiking

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• Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.

  Bill Bryson

  Distance, Two, Feet

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