Hiking quotes
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"When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out."
"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you."
"Life is already too short to waste on speed."
"I was the world in which I walked."
"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet."
"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk."
"Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts."
"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go."
"Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots."
"Hiking. I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains...the se mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."
"Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach."
"Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand."
"If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish."
"Our feet are our body's connection to the earth."
"I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral."
"I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for."
"If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all."
"I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't."
"Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top."
"There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek that."
