Hiking In The Mountains Quotes - Page 4

There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

Ranulph Fiennes

Running, Adventure, Weather

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...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

Jonathan Waterman

Sweet, Inspirational Life, Short Life

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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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Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

Anatoli Boukreev

Ambition, Climbing, Practice

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The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.

Edward Abbey

Journey, Keys, Hiking

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Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."

John Muir

Beautiful, Land, Hiking

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There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

Richard R. Nelson

Motivational, Climbing, Hiking

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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 went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Life, Death

Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Richard M. Nixon

Inspirational, Life, Hiking

Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff, delivered 9 August 1974

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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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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

G. M. Trevelyan

Motivational, Fitness, Health

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

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A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

Paul Dudley White

Motivational, Fitness, Health

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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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There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

Bill Bowerman

Funny, Motivational, Nike

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Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

Paul D. Boyer

Hiking, Long, Mountain

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On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude.

Lionel Terray

Beautiful, Men, Climbing

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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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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

Soren Kierkegaard

Walking Away, Hiking, Entrepreneur

Soren Kierkegaard's letter to Henriette Kierkegaard (1847), as quoted in Soren Kierkegaard "Letters and Documents" (translated by Henrik Rosenmeier), www.huffingtonpost.com. 1978.

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There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

Billy Connolly

Being Happy, Running, Adventure

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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

John Muir

Inspirational, Peace, Nature

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You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

Rene Daumal

Art, Memories, Learning

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Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.

Edward Whymper

Thinking, Climbing, Hiking

1871 Scrambles Amongst the Alps.

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

John Muir

Peace, Nature, Sunshine

Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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I was fortunate enough not to grow up in Hollywood, so I feel that was a blessing. Being surrounded by nature and animals always kept me grounded and happy. My parents were smart to keep my brother and I away from that nonsense. I do live in the LA area now, but I keep my balance by hiking in the mountains with my dogs and taking trail
rides every week on my horse.

Alison Eastwood

Dog, Brother, Horse

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