Bootstraps Quote by Upton Sinclair

Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but…

— Alfred Kazin

It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

— Jack Kerouac

“Nature’s particular gift to the walker, through the semi-mechanical act of walking — a gift no other form of exercise seems to transmit in…

— Kenneth Grahame

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

— George Leigh Mallory

There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we…

— Rudyard Kipling

“The miniature sandscapes of ridge and valley pressed into the soles of my feet and for days after the walk I would feel a…

— Robert Macfarlane

“Trudging alone along that black road, sometimes in the teeth of wind and rain, and watching the white distant gleam of convolvulus through the…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they…

— John Haines

Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come…

— Bayard Taylor

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond…

— Henry David Thoreau

It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get…

— Michael Kennedy

Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I…

— Mark Tobey