Hiking Quotes Part 1

It is fitting to start this instalment of quotes with...a quote. It comes care of Jeff Swystun, "Hiking is one big metaphor for life itself." If you subscribe to that notion then drink in these quotes about life that are really about hiking and vice versa.

"Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow." Henry David Thoreau

"After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value." G.M. Trevelyan

"Anywhere is 'within walking distance'." Anonymous

"Returning home is the most difficult part; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits." Cindy Ross

“Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise.” Carrie Latet

"It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." Sir Edmund Hillary

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” John Muir

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street." William Blake

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." Beverly Sills

“When everything feels like an uphill struggle, Just think of the view from the top.” Anonymous

"Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence." Hermann Buhl

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing the lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” Jack Kerouac

"If you’re going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill

"We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down." Robert Sweetgall

"If the winter is too cold and the summer is too hot, you are not a hiker." Anonymous

"Walking is a man's best medicine." Hippocrates

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” Frank A. Clark