Hiking Quotes - Page 23

• To infinity then. (Bubba) What’s that mean? (Nick) It’s something my dad used to say when I was a kid. To infinity, meaning you’d see something through to the end. (Bubba) Infinity is never-ending. (Nick) That’s right, which means you keep going and going no matter what happens or what obstacles you meet. Over, under, around or through. There’s always a way. And if you have to chase something to infinity, strap on your big-boy pants, hiking boots, and go. (Bubba)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dad, Mean, Kids

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• While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Fall

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.

  Clive Standen

  Climbing, Shapes, Enjoy

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

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• I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors.

  Christine Feehan

  Beautiful, California, Whales

  Christine Feehan (2016). “Fire Bound”, p.200, Penguin

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• Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

  Joseph Monninger

  Reading, Fishing, Maps

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• I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking.

  Jordan Gavaris

  Guitar, Woodworking, Bigs

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• I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and its a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk, I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I dont go running or hard hiking.

  Maria Semple

  Running, Couple, Home

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• Jack London is a very generous description of my small hiking, bicycling, and canoeing habit. I myself feel like a weak urbanite a lot of the time, because lots of my friends are incredible outdoorsmen and women.

  Nick Offerman

  London, Men And Women, Incredibles

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Exercise, Listening, Hearing

  "Rebecca Romijn's Recipes for Success". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.health.com. July 25, 2012.

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

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Usual, Feet And Walking, Mountain Climbing

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

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• Hiking is great because it's a lifelong sport and you're outdoors, active, so whether you call that a sport or a hobby or a recreation, I think the wording - it's a great way to get exercise, and it can be as challenging as you want to make it.

  Jennifer Pharr Davis

  Sports, Exercise, Thinking

  "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

  John Muir

  Yellowstone, Mountain, Yosemite

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.451, e-artnow

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• I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff. It's so much fun to be out in nature and who better to do that with than the person you're dating?

  Adrianne Palicki

  Fun, Dating, Guy

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• To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.

  Thomas Traherne

  Moving, Eye, Journey

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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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• It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

  Michel de Certeau

  Journey, Space, Giving

  "The Practice of Everyday Life".

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• From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.

  Petrarch

  Journey, Mountain Peaks, World

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• The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Journey, Doubt, Pace

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.65, BoD – Books on Demand

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  I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Single, Working Alone, May

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• The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

  Paracelsus

  Book, Journey, Physicians

  The Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, vol. xviii. (p. 234),

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• Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long - long since had ye numbered out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground. When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it, to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rose-buds of delights; and have taken a few turns on it, come back strengthened and refreshed.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sweet, Taken, Men

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...”, p.94

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• Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!

  William Jacob Holland

  Journey, Men, Walking Meditation

  William Jacob Holland (1904). “The moth book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the moths of North America”

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• To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

  Joseph Joubert

  Journey, Arguing, Reason

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• When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is in truth a ritual of renewal and revival on an intimate scale - a small rebirth of well-being on a daily basis.

  Robert Fulghum

  Dog, Latin, Journey

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• A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Spring, Years, Cottages

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