Hiking Quotes - Page 19

• Our feet are our body's connection to the earth.

  Andrew Weil

  Journey, Feet, Connections

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• I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

  Sara Paretsky

  Book, Writing, Everest

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• The path up and down is one and the same.

  Heraclitus

  Journey, Path, Sauntering

  c.500 BC Quoted in Kirk, Raven and Schofield (eds) The Presocratic Philosophers (1957), ch.6.

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• When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.

  William O. Douglas

  Spring, Sleep, Journey

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• People need immediate places to refresh, reinvent themselves. Our surroundings built and natural alike, have an immediate and a continuing effect on the way we feel and act, and on our health and intelligence. These places have an impact on our sense of self, our sense of safety, the kind of work we get done, the ways we interact with other people, even our ability to function as citizens in a democracy. In short, the places where we spend our time affect the people we are and can become.

  Tony Hiss

  Journey, Impact, Self

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• The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Journey, Irritation, Mountain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1030, Library of America

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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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• Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights and sounds, the shapes or textures, or other information from a place that have helped mold our understanding and are now necessary for us to thrive. Overdevelopment and urban sprawl can damage our own lives as much as they damage our cities and countryside.

  Tony Hiss

  Cutting, Journey, Sight

  Tony Hiss (2010). “The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Count ryside”, p.12, Vintage

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• The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range combined. Just a casual glance at the full pack sitting on the floor could give you a double hernia and fuse four vertebrae. After carrying the pack all day, you had to remember to tie one leg to a tree before you dropped it. Otherwise you would float off into space. The pack eliminated the need for any special kind of ground-gripping shoes, because your feet would sink a foot and a half into hard-packed earth, two inches into solid rock.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Journey, Feet, Rocks

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• If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.

  Tenzing Norgay

  Trouble, Everest, Climbs

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

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• Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.

  Colin Fletcher

  Journey, Thinking, House

  Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.146, Knopf

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

  Julian Smith

  Journey, Missing, Path

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• Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

  Annie Smith Peck

  Real, Men, Climbing

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• Climbing is what I do.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Climbing

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• Until I understand where I am, I can’t get to where I am going. This is the value of a compass when we are out walking or hiking and need to know we’re going in the right direction. But we also have an internal North Star. It’s that little nudge that tells us if we are on the right path to fulfilling our potential, or on the wrong path wasting energy traveling somewhere we don’t need to go. So my advice to you is, pull out that compass every once in a while and make sure you are navigating in the right direction on your journey.

  John C. Maxwell

  Stars, Journey, Advice

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Dec 26, 2014

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• I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both.

  Victoria Moran

  Distance, Believe, Journey

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• The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

  Wendell Berry

  Journey, Garden, Land

  "The Unsettling of America". Book by Wendell Berry, 1977.

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• What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful.

  Joss Whedon

  Beautiful, Challenges, Filmmaking

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• [Hiking] is not that crazy, but when you look back and you see that mountain you just climbed, you say, "I can't believe I did that."

  Queen Latifah

  Crazy, Believe, Mountain

  Source: www.craftychica.com

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• Vladimir Putin was saying very good things about me, but I don't have a relationship with him. I didn't meet him. I haven't spent time with him. I didn't have dinner with him. I didn't go hiking with him.

  Donald Trump

  Dinner, Putin, Good Things

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive.

  Gary Snyder

  Journey, Order, Ecosystems

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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, Entrepreneur, Illness

  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 there is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life. Simplicity is part of it. Cutting the cackle. Transportation reduced to leg - or arm - power, eating irons to one spoon. Such simplicity, together with sweat and silence, amplify the rhythms of any long journey, especially through unknown, untattered territory. And in the end such a journey can restore an understanding of how insignificant you are -- and thereby set you free.

  Colin Fletcher

  Cutting, Journey, Iron

  Colin Fletcher (1997). “River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea”, Knopf

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• Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months working eight hours a day, five days a week, in order to earn enough money to be able to come back to a comfortable home in the evening and sit in front of a TV screen and watch the two-dimensional image of some guy talking about a book he has written on a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains.

  Colin Fletcher

  Real, Book, Home

  Colin Fletcher, Clem L. Rawlins (2002). “The Complete Walker IV”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Movement is vital. Whether it's running, cross training, hiking with the dogs, or walking the streets of New York, I am constantly active.

  Theo Rossi

  Running, Dog, New York

  "ORIGIN Interview: Sons of Anarchy Actor Theo Rossi". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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