Best 367 quotes in «hiking quotes» category

My motivation to keep hiking was rooted in the magnificent details of the Appalachian Mountains, and the more I poured myself out - the more energy I gave the trail - the more it gave me in return.

My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty? To live a life.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Nature; it always inspires me. Living in New York, it can get quite stressful sometimes, so on the weekends, I like to go hiking.

Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.

No matter what size you are, you must be healthy. I focus on health as a model, whether it's doing yoga, hiking, kickboxing - those things bring me joy.

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

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

Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.... What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

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

Putting facts by the thousands, into the world, the toes take off with an appealing squeak which the thumping heel follows confidentially, the way men greet men. Sometimes walking is just such elated pumping.

Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave behind that is important. I think the matter of simplicity goes further than just food, equipment, and unnecessary gadgets; it goes into the matter of thoughts and objectives as well. When in the wilds, we must not carry our problems with us or the joy is lost.

Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line.

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

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.

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

Take a walk on the wild side.

That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before. Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It's surreal.

Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift.

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

The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least.

The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.

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

The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.

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.

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

The longest journey begins with a single step.

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

The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an alleory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest).

The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise the individual imagination will be bulldozed over for the chain-store outlets of consumer appetite, true-crime titillations, and celebrity crises.

The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

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

There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your back. It is a confidence in having left the inessentials behind and of entering a world of natural beauty that has not been violated, where money has no value, and possessions are a dead weight. The person with the fewest possessions is the freest. Thoreau was right.

The mountains were there and so was I.

The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.

The path up and down is one and the same.

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

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.

There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.

There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.

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