Quotes on Hiking In The Mountains

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.

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

Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.

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

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

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.

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

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

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

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

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

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.

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

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

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.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

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