Hiking Quotes

A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.

Emptiness is the track on which the centered person moves.

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.

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

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.

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen

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

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

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

A woman is as young as her knees.

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

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!

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

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.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

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

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.

It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

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

It is a great art to saunter !

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

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.

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

I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.

When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.

I was the world in which I walked.

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

The mountains were there and so was I.

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

You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.

Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.

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 civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

Our feet are our body's connection to the earth.