Hiking Quotes · Page 3

Management by Walking Around

— David Packard

Experience comes from bad judgment.

— Mark Twain

Meandering leads to perfection.

— Laozi

L.A. is full of great hiking trails.

— Tamara Taylor

I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads…

— Rosalia de Castro

Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun.

— Karolina Kurkova

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

— Tom Brown, Jr

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

— Wendell Berry

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

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Walking around an early spring garden- going nowhere.

— Kyoshi Takahama

A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.

— Dan Kiley

Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Rick Wakeman

'Ghost Canoe' takes place on the storm-tossed tip of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, where I spent a lot of time hiking and exploring.

— Will Hobbs

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

— Gertrude Stein

For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.

— Conrad Aiken

I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the…

— Nate Holland

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to…

— Leslie Stephen

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

— Gerald Stern

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

— Richard R. Nelson

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining,…

— Winston Graham

Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let…

— Bob Dylan

When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks.…

— Jim Butcher

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no…

— William Shakespeare

“Nature has a way of turning on one’s inner music. You lose some heaviness, and suddenly become as light as a leaf.…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already…

— Edward Abbey

“Hiking is sort of like strip poker: by the end, all the participants are hot, sweaty, and nearly naked, and the winner…

— Winona Dimeo-Ediger

Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of…

— Colin Fletcher

Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the…

— Hilaire Belloc

To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own,…

— Al Alvarez

“As I clung to the chaparral that day, attempting to patch up my bleeding finger, terrified by every sound that the bull…

— Cheryl Strayed

There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need…

— Paul Theroux

Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their…

— Anatoli Boukreev

I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up…

— Gary Snyder

“I like rainbows. We came back down to the meadow near the steaming terrace and sat in the river, just where one…

— Tim Cahill

I have always been physically active. I grew up a tomboy and [was] into sports, so staying active is something that I…

— Tricia Helfer

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

— Brownie McGhee

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.

— Carlos Castaneda

Hiking taxes on businesses hurts workers and raises costs for consumers.

— Tommy Tuberville

I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer.

— Jessica Szohr