Hiking Quotes - Page 9

I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to.

We must walk before we run.

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.

By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.

I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love

If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

I did a lot of hiking and I loved it.

Climbing is what I do.

With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so.

Spiderman can climb walls and he's got a cool outfit.

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).

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.