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

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

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

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.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The mountains were there and so was I.

The longest journey begins with a single step.

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

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

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.

The path up and down is one and the same.

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 naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.

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 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.

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

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

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

There's no regimen. There's no personal trainer. I love to go hiking because it's an experience. If I need to gain stamina for a tour, I will run every single night on the treadmill, but I don't necessarily like being at the gym.

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.

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

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

There there is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life. Simplicity is part of it. Cutting the cackle. Transportation reduced to leg - or arm - power, eating irons to one spoon. Such simplicity, together with sweat and silence, amplify the rhythms of any long journey, especially through unknown, untattered territory. And in the end such a journey can restore an understanding of how insignificant you are -- and thereby set you free.

The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range combined. Just a casual glance at the full pack sitting on the floor could give you a double hernia and fuse four vertebrae. After carrying the pack all day, you had to remember to tie one leg to a tree before you dropped it. Otherwise you would float off into space. The pack eliminated the need for any special kind of ground-gripping shoes, because your feet would sink a foot and a half into hard-packed earth, two inches into solid rock.

Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you're alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet.

To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.