Hiking Quotes - Page 18

• Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort.

  Loren Eiseley

  Running, Journey, Air

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.16, Vintage

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• As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.

  Donald Johanson

  Opportunity, Numbers, Digging

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.

  Bill Bryson

  Journey, Benefits, Four

  Bill Bryson (2010). “A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike”, p.167, Random House

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• A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

  Arthur Baer

  Funny, Your Smile, Neighbors And Friends

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• I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.

  Calista Flockhart

  Friendship, Dog, Mind

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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 man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below the crest, a small log cabin. Its aged owner was sitting in front of the door, smoking a corncob pipe, and when the traveler drew close enough he asked the old man patronizingly: "Lived here all your life?" "Nope," the old mountaineer replied patiently. "Not yet."

  James Keller

  Life, Men, Blue

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• There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.

  Edward Whymper

  Grief, Thinking, Climbing

  1871 Scrambles Amongst the Alps.

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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

  Looks, Stories, Narrative

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

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• When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind is clicking along, but your body is stagnating. Climbing brings it together in a beautiful, magical way. The adrenaline is flowing, and it's flowing all the time.

  Pat Ament

  Beautiful, Climbing, Play

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• To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.

  Al Alvarez

  Mistake, Climbing, Routine Life

  "Our enduring desire to court deadly risk" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life

  David Allan Coe

  Giving, Mountain, Given

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• From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside activities as hiking, walking, fishing, beach play, and gardening, according to a study by Sandra Hofferth at the University of Maryland.

  Richard Louv

  Beach, Children, Fishing

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.34, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Mostly, two miles an hour is good going.

  Colin Fletcher

  Journey, Two, Hours

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• When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Shoes, Numbers, Body

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• All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

  Alain Robert

  Mountain, Building, Forbidden

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• I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.

  Joe Lando

  Thinking, Illinois, Mountain

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• I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.

  Christy Turlington

  Dream, Mountain, Everest

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• By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

  Michael N. Castle

  Appreciation, School, Climbing

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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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• Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

  Xunzi

  Lying, Journey, Earth

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.186, Stanford University Press

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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, Attention

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• I don't smoke, I try to eat right, and I love doing yoga and going for hikes with my dog.

  Sarah Chalke

  Dog, Yoga, Trying

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• Spiderman can climb walls and he's got a cool outfit.

  Rhona Mitra

  Wall, Climbs

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• Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Journey, Mind, Sauntering

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