Hiking Quotes - Page 4

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

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

The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning" phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path.

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

Emptiness is the track on which the centered person moves.

A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

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.

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.

We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

And what exactly is nature walking? It's any and every kind of walking you can do in the natural world. The activity encompasses strolling, striding, sauntering, stepping, treading, tramping, traipsing, traversing, rambling, roving, roaming, racewalking, hiking, meandering, wandering, wending, pacing, peregrinating, perambulating ... in natural surroundings.

When you walking along naturally, you're walking in the harmony of the Unborn.

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

A woman is as young as her knees.

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

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

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.

Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

I absolutely love any kind of outdoor activities like snowboarding, hiking, surfing, and laying out on the beach if I ever get the time... which is not often!

I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.

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.

When is the last time you saw a Lamborghini sale?

[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.