Hiking Quotes - Page 3

• Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

  Theodore Roethke

  Failure, Adversity, Wrestling

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• Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

  Voltaire

  Journey, Thought Provoking, Being Different

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.109, Penguin

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

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Mountain, Lost, Hiker

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• When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Flower, Journey, Sauntering

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• When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Change, Men, Views

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.54, eBookIt.com

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• It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

  Edward Abbey

  Pain, Heart, Journey

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.49, Macmillan

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• The mountains were there and so was I.

  Maurice Herzog

  Mountain, Mountain Climbing

  1952 His reason for becoming a mountain climber. Quoted in Annapurna: Conquest of the First 8000-metre Peak (1952, translated by Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith).

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• The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Feet, Car

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59

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• In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

  Edward Abbey

  Rocks, Climbing, Affair

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.

  Joseph Stefano

  People, Agents, Want

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• I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Morning, Journey, Fog

  Bruce Chatwin (2003). “In Patagonia”, p.59, Penguin

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• Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.

  Joseph Stefano

  Stars, Play, Names

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• Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.

  Joseph Stefano

  Ideas, Backgrounds, Offers

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• My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

  William Golding

  Past, Journey, Yesterday

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• To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Life, Wisdom, Future

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain

  Jack Kerouac

  Motivational, Wisdom, Travel

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• I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking.

  Anna Torv

  Mountain, And Love, Biking

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• Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Love, Life, Yield

  "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" l. 1 (ca. 1589)

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• A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Beautiful, Fun, Journey

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• There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.

  Andy Richter

  Gun, People, Mountain

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

  Joseph Addison

  Army, Justice, Mountain

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• When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Grieving, Mountain

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.92, Lulu.com

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

  Rosalia de Castro

  Travel, Adventure, Backpacking

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