Hiking Quotes - Page 2

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

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

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

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.

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

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

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

Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

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.

Mostly, two miles an hour is good going.

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.

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.

Hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

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.