Quotes on Hiker

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

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.