Fall Quote by Colin Fletcher

“Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.”

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Mostly, two miles an hour is good going.

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The best dress for walking is nakedness.

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God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you…

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Life should be an unfinished business.

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Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.

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By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense…

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

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It is always there, of course, when you come back from the green world. You have been living by sunrise and sunset, by wind…

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Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what…

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“But if you judge safety to be the paramount consideration in life you should never, under any circumstances, go on long hikes alone. Don’t…

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“The act of driving your body, very occasionally, close to its limit of endurance is for some reason one of life’s major satisfactions. And…

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Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated campsites, with…

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To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

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