If you set the example, you won't need to set many rules. It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away. One will never reach distant shores, if he chooses to remain upon the dock, In fear his little ship of dreams may be dashed against the rocks. One with God is a majority. Our toaster works on either AC or DC, but not on bread. It has two settings: too soon or too late. Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the oth er person to die. Author: Cindy Clabough The longer you wait, the better the date. Author: Myriad Sky The only difference between fear and adventure is how much you breathe. Author: Rob Kalnitsky To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born. Author: A.p. Gouthey Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. Author: Johann Goethe Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Author: Satchel Paige A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. Author: Louis L'amour Artichokes are like humans: you have to go through so much to get to the heart. Author: Kathy Good During a carnival, men put masks over their masks. Author: Xavier Forneret God is not moved or impressed with our worship until our hearts are moved and impressed by Him. Author: Kelly Sparks Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence. Author: Bonar Thompson Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace. Author: Jerry Bridges No Witnesses, No Regrets. Author: David Wilbanks Are you trying to live through me? Author: Thomas Lahoz

 

  

 

Everyone leaves footprints in you memory, but the ones that leave footprints in your heart are the ones you will truely remember. Author: Nicholas Sperling Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. Author: Hasidic Saying Everywhere children are schooled to become masters at answering questions and to remain novices at asking them. Author: Dillon Expectations are for the unsure. Author: Peter Walstrom Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations. Author: Elton Trueblood Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. Author: Peter Marshall Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn't have to hear about all the men she could have married, and she didn't have to hear about the way his mother cooked. Author: Kimberley Broyles A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. Author: Harvey Mackay Anything you lose automatically doubles in value. Author: Mignon Mclaughin A person lives, to be loved.A person loves, to have lived. Author: Michael Crowgey Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart. Author: Richard Carlson Can't never did anything but fail. Author: Mr. Eaton Character is made by what you stand for; reputation, by what you fall for. Author: Robert Quillen Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless. Author: Goethe If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy. Author: Robert Marlowe If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. Author: Oriental Proverb Old hippies never die, they just surrender to society. Author: Stephe Trust but verify. Author: Russian Proverb Where there are love and generosity, there is joy. Where there are sincerity and sacrifice, there is friendship. Where there are harmony and simplicity, there is beauty. Where there are prayer and forgiveness, there is peace. Where there are

  

           

moderation and patience, there is wisdom. Where there are conflicts and crises, there is opportunity. Where there are wonder and adventure, there is growth. Where there are adoration and confession, there is worship. Where there are compassion and concern, there is God. Where there are faith and hope, there is spring. Author: Larry Reed    A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Author: Henry Adams If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing! Author: Stacey Brown People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars.... and they pass by themselves without wondering. Author: St. Augustine We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children. Author: Ancient Proverb There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path! Author: Morpheous There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of eve n one small candle. Author: Robert Alden The world is a great big book, of which those who never travel read only one page. Author: Augustine Who gossips to you will gossip of you. Author: Turkish Proverb Who got it, did get it; and who left it, did regret it. Author: Algerian Proverb He who kneels the most stands best. Author: D.l. Moody It is taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything. Author: Rene Coty

 

    

Life is either a great adventure or nothing. ~

Helen Keller
A ri st otle

~ To die will be an awfully big adventure. ~

~ An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ~ G . K. C hest er t on

~ Adventure is not outside a man; it is within ~

Da vi d G a yson

~ A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. ~ Lau ren ce S tern e

~ Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ~ Kennedy

R ob e rt F.

~ You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourse lf indulge in vain wishes. ~ Rabindranath Tag ore

~ People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. ~ Dal e Turner

~ Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly ~

V ol t ai re

~ We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character ~ ~ Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. ~ ~ I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. ~ V i n cen t van G og h

~ We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. ~ Jawaharlal N ehru

~ All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary ~

Sall y Ride

~ Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. ~

Alfred N orth Whitehead

~ Without adventure civilization is in full decay ~

A l f red N or th Whi tehe ad

~ A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. ~ Be r tr and R ussell

~ Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art ~ Ma ya A n g el o

~ Do not dare not to dare. ~

C.S. Lewis

~ Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. ~

Trekking / Hiking Quotes

Inspirational Hiking Quotes

Tue, 2008/06/17 - 8:46am Molta

For those who value the spiritual impact of quotes, here are some inspirational ones all tackling hiking, walking, mountains, and nature.

"Take only pictures; leave only footprints." -- Anonymous

"...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives." -- Jonathan Waterman

"You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves." -- Lito Tejada-Flores

"Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach." -- John Muir

"Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory." -- Ed Viesturs (No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks)

"It's always further than it looks. It's always taller than it looks.

And it's always harder than it looks." -- The 3 rules of mountaineering.

"It's a wonderful feeling to push even a tiny piece of the planet down beneath one's feet. If it's overhanging plastic, it's going to pump your arms like bloated sausages; if it's a steep snow -slope at 27000 feet it's going to deaden the legs and make the lungs like overworked bellows. Either way, the challenges are obvious." -- Adrian Burgess

"One does not climb to attain enlightenment, rather one climbs because he is enlightened." -- Zen Master Futomaki

"Many years ago, I climbed the mountains, even thought it is forbidden. Things are n as they ot teach us; the world is hollow, and I have touched the sky." -- From a dying Star Trek character

"Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes." -- Jonathan Waterman

"Climbing is not a spectator sport." -- Mark Wellman

"Remember that time spent on a rock climb isn't subtracted from your life span." -- Will Niccolls

"[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story." -- Rebecca Solnit (Wanderlust: A History of Walking)

"In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock." -- Edward Abbey

"There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefsupon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end." -- Edward Whymper

"The aim of the mountaineer, if he wishes to be an artist in the full sense of word, is neither escape nor "the search for the absolute" as some have claimed, but rat her seek that place where "the mystic remains silent and the poets start to speak towards men." -- Bernard Amy

"Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb." -- Greg Child

"In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards the consciousness, towards the spirit. We have always honored the high places because we sense them to be the homes of gods. In the mo untains there is the promise of... something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars. So we climb... and in climbing there is more than a metaphor; there is a means of discovery." -- Rob Parker

"Climbing is as close as we can come to flying." -- Margaret Young, aviator and alpinist

"On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude." -- Lionel Terray

"Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence." -- Nemann Buhl

"In the mountains there are only two grades: You can either do it, or you can't." -- Rusty Baille

"Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing." -- Jonathan Waterman

"If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man." -- Wilfrid Noyce

"When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind is clicking along, but your body is stagnating. Climbing brings it together in a beautiful, magical way. The adrenaline is flowing, and it's flowing all the time." -- Pat Ament

"Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor or you may get hurt, which is major. Instead of years of meditation, you have this activity that forces you to relax and monitor your breathing and tread that line between living and dying. When you climb, you always are confronted wi h the edge. Hey, t if it was just like climbing a ladder, we all would have quit a long time ago." -- Duncan Ferguson

"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place ? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know." -- Rene Daumal

"To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling." -- A. Alvarez, The Games Climbers Play.

"The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least." -- Lisa Morgan

"The pleasure of risk is in the control needed to ride it with assurance so that what appears dangerous to the outsider is, to the participant, simply a matter of intelligence, skill, intuition, coordination... in a word, experience. Climbing in particular, is a paradoxically intellectual pastime, but with this difference: you have to think with your body. Every move has to be worked out in terms of playing chess with your body. If I make a mistake the consequences are immediate, obvious, embarrassing, and possibly painful. For a brief period I am directly responsible for my actions. In that beautiful, silent, world of mountains, it seems to me worth a little risk." -- A. Alvarez

"If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can approach, it also presents great dangers. It is not the goal of grand alpinism to face peril, but it is one of the tests one must undergo to deserve the joy of rising for an instant above the state of crawling grubs. But soon we have to start the descent. Suddenly I feel sad and despondent. I am well aware that a mountaineering victory is only a scratch in space But in spite of this, how sad I feel at leaving that crest ! On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude." -- Lionel Terray

"I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak." -- Sir Leslie Stephen

"Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate." -- Gaston Rebuffat (1921- 1985)

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go." -- T.S. Eliot

"Each fresh peak ascended teaches something." -- Sir Martin Convay

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. -- John Muir

Me think that the moment mylegs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. -- Henry DavidThoreau I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stayout till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. -- John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of t he Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938

Hiking alone lets me have some time to myself. -- Jamie Luner

The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage ofthe feudal promenade in the nineteenth century. -- Theodor W. Adorno

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. -- George Macauley Trevelyan

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. -- Raymond Inmon

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. -- Wallace Stevens

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

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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. -- G.M. Trevelyan

A vigorous five-mile walkwill do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than allthe medicine and psychology in the world. -- Paul Dudley White

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. -- Aldous Huxley

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. -- Steven Wright

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. -- George Macauley Trevelyan

When you haveworn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed intothe fiber of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoesand hats and clothes you have worn out. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the la ke. -- Wallace Stevens

Thoughts come clearly while one walks. -- Thomas Mann

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

Above all, do not loseyour desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state ofwell-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself intomy best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that onecannot walk away from it. -- Soren Kierkegaard Walks

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. -- Jacqueline Schiff

I still find each daytoo short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want totake, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want tosee. -- John Burroughs

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841

How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there,and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say itis time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the dayand the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannotexplain. So you walk. -- Author unknown, from New York Times editorial, "The Walk," 25 October 1967

Make your feet your friend. -- J.M. Barrie

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity... -- John Muir

Ive learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while youre climbing it. -- Unknown

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits. -- Cindy Ross

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

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not all that wander are lost. -- Unknown

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain he is inspired by it. -- William Artur Ward

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

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. -- Theodore Roethk

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains. -- Richard Nelson

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried. -- Frank Tyger

It isnt the mountain ahead that wears you out; its the grain of sand in your shoe. -- Robert W. Service

In every walk with nature one receives more than he seeks. -- John Muir

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. -- Edmund Hillary

There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when theyre in the mountains, and all the rest. -- Alex Lowe

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up -- Robert Persin

The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends. -- Tom Brown, Jr.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key. That's the best thing about a walking, the journey itself. It doesn't much matter whether you get where your going or not. You'll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right were you started. -- Edward Abbey

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. -- Dag Hammarskjold

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesnt lead anywhere. -- Frank A. Clark

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory. -- Ed Viesturs (No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks)

"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." -- John Muir ( a famous American explorer, writer, naturalist - best known for defending species and wilderness regions against the destructive hands of modernity.)

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn." -- Also by John Muir

"If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk." -- Raymond Inmon

"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, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it." -- Soren Kierkegaard

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds." -- Unknown

"You need special shoes for hiking - and a bit of a special soul as well." -- Emme Woodhull-Bche