God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun,… — Colin Fletcher Claims Copy Share Image
Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money. — Colin Fletcher Arrangements Copy Share Image
By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost… — Colin Fletcher Clothings 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 Backpacking Copy Share Image
It is always there, of course, when you come back from the green world. You have been living by sunrise and sunset,… — Colin Fletcher Courses Copy Share Image
Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely… — Colin Fletcher Cinema Copy Share Image
“But if you judge safety to be the paramount consideration in life you should never, under any circumstances, go on long hikes… — Colin Fletcher Falling in love Copy Share Image
Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you. — Colin Fletcher Fall Copy Share Image
“The act of driving your body, very occasionally, close to its limit of endurance is for some reason one of life’s major… — Colin Fletcher Inspirational Copy Share Image
Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated… — Colin Fletcher Backpacking Copy Share Image
Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and… — Colin Fletcher Details Copy Share Image
I do what I do instinctively, and that’s me. If you like me, that’s fine; if you don’t like me then don’t… — Colin Fletcher Don't like me Copy Share Image
Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be… — Colin Fletcher Adam Copy Share Image
The best dress for walking is nakedness. But our sad though fascinating world rarely offers the right and necessary combinations of weather… — Colin Fletcher Clothings Copy Share Image
I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it… — Colin Fletcher Addiction Copy Share Image
People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image — Colin Fletcher Importance Copy Share Image
Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than… — Colin Fletcher Able Copy Share Image
I find that the three truly great times for thinking thoughts are when I am standing in the shower, sitting on the… — Colin Fletcher Great times Copy Share Image
There there is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life. Simplicity is part of it. Cutting the cackle.… — Colin Fletcher Amplify Copy Share Image
