“...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain… — Jonathan Waterman Copy Share Image
Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining,… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety… — Jonathan Waterman Copy Share Image
I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot,… — Lara Jean Chorostecki Copy Share Image
It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he… — Joseph Stefano Copy Share Image
My ideal vacation isn't about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don't speak the language, go hiking, then… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
I do a lot of dancing. I don't like to run much because I get shin splints. I love being outside so… — Julianne Hough Copy Share Image
I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
I did get upset once, when we were hiking between pitches 15 and 16. Two women and a dog were trying to… — Andy Cairns Copy Share Image
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go… — Wilfrid Noyce Copy Share Image
What really helps motivate me to walk are my dogs, who are my best pals. They keep you honest about walking because… — Wendie Malick Copy Share Image
For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Aside from marrying my husband and having my children, hiking the PCT was the best thing I ever did. The hike very… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing,… — Larry Wilcox Copy Share Image
To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long,… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image