Quotes About Hiking Mountain

#1. Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels and pickaxes into the back of the truck and then head off to the side of a mountain or the bottom of a canyon. Hiking, fishing, hunting, rock-hounding: this is how my parents passed the time.

Benjamin Percy

#2. I was sitting by myself the other night doing the usual things one does when spending time alone with yourselves. You know, making mountains out of molehills, hiking up to the top of the mountains, having a Hostess Twinkie and then throwing myself off the mountain. Stuff like that.

Carrie Fisher

#3. This ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations ...

Christopher McDougall

#4. Lara [Raith] was gorgeous, brilliant, and sexier than a Swedish bikini team hiking up a mountain of money.

Jim Butcher

#5. Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift.

Cindy Ross

#6. He loved me," she said, her voice leaden. "It is so easy to take love for granted when one has always had it. I knew he loved me as I loved him, but I did not realize perhaps how much until all love was removed.

Mary Balogh

#7. I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.

Natalie Dormer

#8. At 83, if I were enjoying life any more I couldn't stand it! My fast-walks, gym work, mountain hiking and interplay long-distance with my family are the basis of my happiness. My writings reflect my work and life experiences, education and research and covers about 75 years.

Jerry Lemonds

#9. Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

John Muir

#10. My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

Douglas Preston

#11. The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.

David Josiah Brewer

#12. I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.

Nate Holland

#13. 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

#14. I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking.

Anna Torv

#15. It's emotions. Sometimes you feel, sometimes you don't. You can't force yourself into feeling something, can you?

Sarvesh Jain

#16. Sunrise over the mountain-forest was gorgeous - Aurora brushing out her golden tresses with a comb of dark-needled pine and bare-limbed oak.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

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

Greg Child

#18. That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being ... is the force of love. Christians call this "eternal blessedness." It is a necessity of man for growth and joy.

Gustav Mahler

#19. There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

Anne Rice

#20. And if I really wanted to understand the Raramuri, I should have been there when this ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't.

Christopher McDougall

#21. In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

Frank Smythe

#22. Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

Jonathan Waterman

#23. But even the moment when the leaves fall from their boughs - even that moment - has a beauty to it. A glory of its own.

Renee Ahdieh

#24. Be the kind of person that sees an obstacle as a Mountain, and throws on their hiking gear

Casar Jacobson

#25. The mountains were there and so was I.

Maurice Herzog

#26. My motivation to keep hiking was rooted in the magnificent details of the Appalachian Mountains, and the more I poured myself out - the more energy I gave the trail - the more it gave me in return.

Jennifer Pharr Davis