Hiking Quotations

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

Hiking is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.

I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.

I'm simple. I love hiking, going to the gym, doing some simple stuff. I love being outdoors, I love bike riding. Just stuff that's fun!

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally.

Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

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.

I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

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

Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.

My best friends are just girls who go to school. They're not in the industry, and we have dinner nights and learn how to cook together and go on hiking trails and the beach.

I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.

I absolutely love any kind of outdoor activities like snowboarding, hiking, surfing, and laying out on the beach if I ever get the time... which is not often!

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.

When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make bamboo rafts to sail down rivers.

I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

'Ghost Canoe' takes place on the storm-tossed tip of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, where I spent a lot of time hiking and exploring.

I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff. It's so much fun to be out in nature and who better to do that with than the person you're dating?

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?

Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line.

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

As writers, we must keep throwing problems at our characters. Conflict is the heart of good storytelling. Hiking in nature along a twisting trail can remind us what a good story feels like. It's the opposite of a treadmill - or an interstate highway.

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up.

I did a lot of hiking and I loved it.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

I love being outdoors - hiking, biking, and swimming.

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating at the summit of Africa's highest peak by hitting a couple balls to see how far they might fly in the thin air at 19,341 feet.

I love boxing, MMA, and hiking with my dog. I work out 3 times a week, and on my off days, I do yoga to keep my body relaxed and to stretch.

I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful.

I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but Ill stop short of calling it foolish.

Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes - then they will look more youthful. The contrary is true.

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe.

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

I wear Blundstones for hiking. They're like a work boot with a bit of grip, so you can wear them all day. They're quite groovy.

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

For exercise, I tend to like the outdoors. In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot. I like to stay fit by being generally active.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.

I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, camping.

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

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 love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.

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.

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

I like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don't box, but I'll ride my bike and go jogging or running in the park. Sometimes my lady and I go hiking.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

We still think inflation will be contained. The reality is the economy is going to slow sharply over the next three to six months, and that should keep the Fed from hiking beyond May.

We're expecting very strong first-quarter growth, which means the Fed can keep hiking rates in the first half of the year. This is not a good time to be buying Treasuries.

And what exactly is nature walking? It's any and every kind of walking you can do in the natural world. The activity encompasses strolling, striding, sauntering, stepping, treading, tramping, traipsing, traversing, rambling, roving, roaming, racewalking, hiking, meandering, wandering, wending, pacing, peregrinating, perambulating ... in natural surroundings.

Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost

Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire sweater unraveled into a pile of string. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost.

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.