Quotes Tagged "hiking"

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.

None of your knowledge, your reading, your connections will be of any use here: two legs suffice, and big eyes to see with. Walk alone, across mountains or through forests. You are nobody to the hills or the thick boughs heavy with greenery. You are no longer a role, or a status, not even an individual, but a body, a body that feels sharp stones on the paths, the caress of long grass and the freshness of the wind. When you walk, the world has neither present nor future: nothing but the cycle of mornings and evenings. Always the same thing to do all day: walk. But the walker who marvels while walking (the blue of the rocks in a July evening light, the silvery green of olive leaves at noon, the violet morning hills) has no past, no plans, no experience. He has within him the eternal child. While walking I am but a simple gaze.

There were times when I cursed the trail and the weather for hours. But after you sulk and consider your options, you eventually realize that you can sit there and cry, or you can walk... It doesn't matter so much if you cry or walk -- I did a lot of both -- but if you turn on your partner, you'll never make it together.

I love hiking, paddle boarding and listening to the Veronicas.

I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking.

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

L.A. is full of great hiking trails.

Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun.