Hiking Quotes

Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave behind that is important. I think the matter of simplicity goes further than just food, equipment, and unnecessary gadgets; it goes into the matter of thoughts and objectives as well. When in the wilds, we must not carry our problems with us or the joy is lost.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

When the path ignites a soul, there's no remaining in place. The foot touches ground, but not for long.

The longest journey begins with a single step.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Take a walk on the wild side.

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

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.

Just put one foot in front of the other.

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

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

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

The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

Mostly, two miles an hour is good going.

Hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

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.

The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.

I did get upset once, when we were hiking between pitches 15 and 16. Two women and a dog were trying to find their way down through the maze of trails below the First Summit and they asked us: 'Are you on the trail?' I let my indignity show: 'NO, we're on a CLIMB!'

But all of this success came at the end of a long climb.

The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least.