40 Quotes by Hiking

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

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

Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun.

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

Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so.

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

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

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature’s darlings.

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.