Trekking Quotes - Page 9

• For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Pace, Snail, Strolling

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

  John Millington Synge

  Journey, Hiking, Islands

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Aran Islands and Connemara”, p.39, Mercier Press Ltd

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• You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Graduation, Encouraging, Being Single

  Dr. Seuss (2017). “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.

  William O. Douglas

  Beach, Nature, Journey

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1960). “My Wilderness THE PACIFIC WEST”

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• The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

  Al Smith

  Sunshine, Journey, Hiking

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• Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Nature, Common Sense

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.186, Random House

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• Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

  Edward Abbey

  Suicidal, Journey, Should Have

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• The sum of the whole is this: walk and b« happy! walk and be healthy. The best of all ways to lengthen ourdays, is notas Mr. Thomas Moore has it, " ]To steal a few hours from night, my love;" but with leave, be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose.

  Charles Dickens

  Healthy, Purpose, Way

  "Household Words".

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• Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path

  Jean Anouilh

  Men, Garden, Littles

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.43, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Life, Witty, Bad Day

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

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• In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.

  Michael Servetus

  Life, Journey, Breathing

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• A woman is as young as her knees.

  Mary Quant

  Journey, Hiking, Knees

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• You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

  Carol Burnett

  Falling In Love, Journey, Order

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• In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Journey, Cities, Hiking

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

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• It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.

  Horace Kephart

  Happy, Blessing, Journey

  Horace Kephart (1910). “The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilderness”

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• The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.

  David Douglas

  Moving, Journey, Hiking

  David Douglas (1987). “Wilderness sojourn: notes in the desert silence”, Harper San Francisco

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• The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.

  Horace Kephart

  Home, Journey, Men

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• The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.

  Philippe Petit

  Journey, Sky, Hiking

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

  Michel de Certeau

  Journey, Hiking, Space

  "The Practice of Everyday Life".

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• I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Journey, Average, Two

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 4, 2004.

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• I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and
  blowing, and within two days of being May ... But as if to assert the triumph of climate over weather,
  one ancient willow managed a few gray pussy willows, soft and barely visible against the snow-blurred
  gray background.

  Ann Zwinger

  Spring, Believe, Journey

  Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.92, Big Earth Publishing

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• We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.

  Annie Dillard

  Journey, Hiking, Might

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.56, Canongate Books

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• Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

  Rumi

  Journey, Garden, Hiking

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• It is a great art to saunter !

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Journey, Hiking

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.27, Yale University Press

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• Walking around an early spring garden- going nowhere.

  Kyoshi Takahama

  Spring, Journey, Garden

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