Pacific Crest Quotes

#1. Humans pull together in an odd way when they're in the wilderness. It's astonishing how few people litter and how much they help one another. Indeed, the smartphone app to navigate the Pacific Crest Trail, Halfmile, is a labor of love by hikers who make it available as a free download.

Nicholas Kristof

#2. The AT is no longer the longest hiking trail - the Pacific Crest and Continental Divide trails, both out West, are slightly longer - but it will always be the first and greatest. It has a lot of friends. It deserves them.

Bill Bryson

#3. The thing that would make me believe that hiking the Pacific Crest Trail was my way back to the person I used to be.

Cheryl Strayed

#4. There are very few things I've done just twice in my life, 40 years apart, and one is to backpack on the Pacific Crest Trail across the California/Oregon border.

Nicholas Kristof

#5. So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

Tony Campolo

#6. When you are watching the universe, you are watching yourself! Wherever you visit in the universe, you visit yourself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Along the Pacific shore I saw a sign that said this: "Life in the Crash Zone: Wind against sea creates friction, causing waves to crest, then break with fury against the shore. Anything that finds itself in this crash zone has to hide out or hang on for dear life.

Kari West

#8. A good story is read, a great one takes you with it!

James F. Timmins

#9. Maybe I'd die. Maybe I'd burn to ash in wind, or blacken like the pines. Charred skeletons, I'd add one to the count. I didn't feel scared. I didn't think to panic. The trail wasn't burning. I was raw, ripe for loving. I wasn't stopping.

Aspen Matis

#10. Christ said, The Truth shall make you free, but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.

Max Heindel

#11. I didn't get attached to Botox. It is costly, and you have to remember to keep doing it.

Cherie Lunghi

#12. In autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe

Salman Rushdie

#13. The world was different in the morning. Quiet, unassuming, and somehow bigger, as if it was brimming with possibility. It was, she thought, as if during the day the world went through a shrinking process, gradually condensing the morning's expansion, only to inflate again during the night

H.J. Gerald