Hiking Quotes - Page 5

• To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.549

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• Going to the mountains is going home.

  John Muir

  Home, Adventure, Climbing

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.721, Library of America

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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, Mountain

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• I still find each day too short.

  John Burroughs

  Thinking Of You, Retirement, Short Life

  John Burroughs (1924). “Summit of the years”

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• The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Beauty, Loneliness

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• In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards the consciousness, towards the spirit. We have always honored the high places because we sense them to be the homes of gods. In the mountains there is the promise of... something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars. So we climb... and in climbing there is more than a metaphor; there is a means of discovery.

  Rob Parker

  Motivational, Home, Mean

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• Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

  John Ruskin

  Climbing, Mountain, Literature

  Modern Painters vol. 4, pt. 5, ch. 20 (1856)

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• What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world

  Galen

  Philosophy, Mean, Artist

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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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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

  John Muir

  Wisdom, Nature, Autumn

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Running, Adventure, Weather

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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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• Take only memories, leave only footprints.

  Chief Seattle

  Inspirational, Travel, Memories

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• What really helps motivate me to walk are my dogs, who are my best pals. They keep you honest about walking because when it's time to go, you can't disappoint those little faces.

  Wendie Malick

  Dog, Pals, Littles

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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, Mountain

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• We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities.

  George W. Sears

  Home, Journey, Cities

  George W. Sears Nessmuk (2013). “Woodcraft and Camping”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.

  Gaston Rebuffat

  Journey, Rocks, Climbing

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• For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Journey, Thinking, Mind

  "The Confessions".

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  Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

  Phil McGraw

  Determination, Dragons, Guy

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

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• The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Ends, Trails, Trekking

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

  Edward Abbey

  Journey, Keys, Steps

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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 went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Dead Poets Society

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Mountain, Inspired, Climbers

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