"Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery."
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"Experience comes from bad judgment."
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"Going to the mountains is going home."
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"Every journey begins with a single step."
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"Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed."
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"To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
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"Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath."
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"I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary."
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"For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs."
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"We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!"
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"Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen"
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"The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key."
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"The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine."
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"When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain."
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"The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking."
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"In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock."
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"I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it."
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"It is a great art to saunter !"
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"Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it."
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"Freedom - to walk free and own no superior."
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