Trails Quotes

• Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

  Robert Motherwell

  Beauty, Uplifting, Song

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

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Hiking, Ends, Trekking

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• Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
  Some trails are happy ones,
  Others are blue.
  It's the way you ride the trail that counts,
  Here's a happy one for you.

  Dale Evans

  Goodbye, Farewell, Blue

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• May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Adventure

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.12, University of Arizona Press

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Eye, Mind, Sahara

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.132, A&C Black

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• Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

  Anita Brookner

  Unfinished Business, New Ventures, Games

  Anita Brookner (1989). “Lewis Percy”

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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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• Going to the mountains is going home.

  John Muir

  Home, Adventure, Hiking

  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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  Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Sunshine

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Just put one foot in front of the other.

  Austin Peck

  Running, Perseverance, Hiking

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• Happy trails to you, until we meet again.

  Dale Evans

  Goodbye, Farewell, Memorial

  "Happy Trails" (song) (1950)

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• I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

  Hamlin Garland

  Blessed, Fall, Sunset

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• There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

  Anya Seton

  Inspirational, Deep Thought, Mountain

  Anya Seton (2016). “The Turquoise”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Peace, Nature

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• I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

  John Muir

  Nature, Flower, Adventure

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.427, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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  Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Business, Discovery, Mind

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• We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

  Branford Marsalis

  Song, Couple, Stupid

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• But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.

  James Henry Breasted

  Lonely, Father, Land

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• It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

  Dennis Weaver

  Fun, Different, World

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• This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell.

  Graham Nelson

  Mean, Plot, Should

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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, Hiking

  "The Confessions".

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• Now shall I walk or shall I ride? 'Ride,' Pleasure said; 'Walk,' Joy replied.

  W. H. Davies

  Life, Hiking, Joy

  William Henry Davies, “The Best Friend”

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• My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

  Hamlin Garland

  Love, Peace, Nature

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  Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

  John Muir

  Travel, Home, Tired

  "Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays".

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