Colin Fletcher Quotes

#1. Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.

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#2. The best dress for walking is nakedness.

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#3. Mostly, two miles an hour is good going.

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#4. I do what I do instinctively, and that's me. If you like me, that's fine; if you don't like me then don't watch me.

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#5. Life should be an unfinished business.

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#6. I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

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#7. Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.

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#8. God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satan - or man to create both.

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#9. People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image

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#10. Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.

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#11. Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.

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#12. Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.

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#13. I find that the three truly great times for thinking thoughts are when I am standing in the shower, sitting on the john, or walking. And the greatest of these, by far, is walking.

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