I know that I was hiking at a very young age because I remember being convinced that it was the trees that were talking.

I found things in the woods that I didn’t know I was looking for… and now I’ll never be the same.

Something deep within me connected with hard work, nature and simplicity.

One of the best feelings I had growing up was being completely exhausted at the end of the day after playing outside all day.

My motivation to keep hiking was rooted in the magnificent details of the Appalachian Mountains, and the more I poured myself out - the more energy I gave the trail - the more it gave me in return.

Our bodies are made to move, and moving down the trail is one of the oldest, natural ways people have used their bodies.

I'd always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.

A lot of people talk about the trail healing them, but I feel like, the first time, it humbled me, which I probably needed. It was a completely new way to experience the world and my body.

I was surrounded by life and beauty. My soul was content, and my life felt full.

I would rather watch a sunset than TV.

One thing I think I've always felt about being in nature is that it's a very natural taste.

I made the decision fifteen years ago that you were my life. My everything. You were with me in my dreams my dark lover my friend and confidant.

You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

Be positive and laugh at everything.

Sookie, what have we done? And to whom?" "I killed a chicken. And I cooked it." "Sookie, Sookie. My bullshit meter is reading that as a false." -Eric Northman, Sookie Stackhouse

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.

You truly do reap what you sow, so that makes it so important for us to learn to love each other in the here and now.