Top 100 Quotes About Hiking
#1. I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking.
Anna Torv
#2. Hiking is great because it's a lifelong sport and you're outdoors, active, so whether you call that a sport or a hobby or a recreation, I think the wording - it's a great way to get exercise, and it can be as challenging as you want to make it.
Jennifer Pharr Davis
#3. I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
Rachel Boston
#4. I'm lucky to have parents who used to be bodybuilders! They help me keep fit by going to the gym and training with me. I'm also addicted to Cardio Barre classes and hiking.
Janel Parrish
#5. Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so.
Richard Bach
#6. It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
Leslie What
#7. Hiking is like life...
You can spend the whole trip just watching the trail ahead, worrying that you'll twist an ankle or fall.
And then you miss all this.
Susannah Scott
#9. I went into geology because I like being outdoors, and because everybody in geology seemed, well, they all seemed like free spirits or renegades or something. You know, climbing mountains and hiking deserts and stuff.
Kathy B. Steele
#10. When we apply the lessons we've struggled for our whole lives to learn to the lives of people we love, our love becomes judgment - which is toxic. Our fear our daughters will fail leads us to fail them.
Aspen Matis
#11. She said, Hiking is the same thing as walking, only hotter and twice as far as you want to go. But usually, you're glad you went.
Anita Diamant
#12. The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least.
Lisa Morgan
#13. I was so much more powerful than anyone knew. I was an animal learning to fight back, instinctively, fiercely. I was a brave girl. I was a fit fox.
I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself.
Aspen Matis
#14. I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.
Alan Dershowitz
#15. Nature; it always inspires me. Living in New York, it can get quite stressful sometimes, so on the weekends, I like to go hiking.
Valentina Zelyaeva
#16. I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe.
Rebecca Romijn
#17. The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.
Mark Twain
#18. The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe and competent. My whole body was occupied. I had little energy to think or worry.
Aspen Matis
#19. 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
#20. A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but I'll stop short of calling it foolish.
Claire Cameron
#21. We don't stop hiking because we grow old - we grow old because we stop hiking
Finis Mitchell
#22. I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.
Will Rogers
#23. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk. I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.
Maria Semple
#25. My mom used to tell me, "I don't like my mother, but I love her.
Aspen Matis
#26. I love feeling in touch with Mother Nature. Spending time outside - whether it's hiking, biking, walking on the beach, or lying in the sun - brings me clarity and energy.
Chelsea Krost
#27. Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.
Colin Fletcher
#28. America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
Olga Kurylenko
#30. I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#31. I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
Olivia Wilde
#32. As soon as the first piece of foliage came within blade's reach, my student started frantically swinging the machete like he was defending his virtue from a trove of drunken, handsy woodland elves. 'I feel like I'm in the movie Predator,' he said as he decapitated a flower.
Michael Gurnow
#33. On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as the things that made me happy. And I understood: that was okay.
Aspen Matis
#34. Be the kind of person that sees an obstacle as a Mountain, and throws on their hiking gear
Casar Jacobson
#35. In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
Edward Abbey
#36. Here's what I think," says Jasmine between chattering teeth. "If these humans are stupid enough to go hiking in this - " she gestures to the thick mist swirling around us '-then they deserve to be led into a marsh and drowned.
Rachel Morgan
#37. Maybe I'm making this up, but my portions seem to be smaller lately. I'm not sure why. The hiking and running on the tracker keep me fit. If anything, I should be getting more food, not less. It must be my imagination.
Ally Condie
#38. I love hiking, paddle boarding and listening to the Veronicas.
Bindi Irwin
#39. ...we're not even really hiking,
more like meandering in cinematic light.
Kristen Henderson
#40. My wife simply quoted, 'For better or worse.' It was only then that I realized the phrase was not multiple-choice.
Michael Gurnow
#41. 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.
Soren Kierkegaard
#42. I was interested in the kicks and the punches. I felt like I could utilize that in my real life, and not just in fake land. I've always done yoga for my breathing, and hiking for my mind, but I was also exercising, at the same time.
Zoey Deutch
#43. I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, I hoped it was a place I never had to go, for this earth was greater than any paradise.
Daniel J. Rice
#44. Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
Jules Renard
#45. Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.
Jack Kerouac
#46. The day is crisp and clear, almost like every other morning he's taken the same walk in the snow, hiking to the forest and back.
M.C. Frank
#47. I had not been prepared for my employer's approach to vehicular navigation, which was a simple case of being unable to tell the difference between a very large, multi-windowed van that could accommodate a mobile disco and a Formula One racer.
Michael Gurnow
#48. I'm an outdoorsy person. I really enjoy the hiking in L.A.
Matt Lanter
#49. Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes - then they will look more youthful. The contrary is true.
Russell Smith
#50. If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.
Craig Ferguson
#51. Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.
Jonathan Waterman
#52. I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
Sally Ride
#53. Of course women's walking is often construed as performance rather than transport, with the implication that women walk not to see but to be seen, not for their own experience but for that of a male audience, which means that they are asking for whatever attention they receive.
Rebecca Solnit
#54. I live in Los Angeles and I like to do a lot of hiking. I live a very relaxed life.
Nathan Fillion
#55. I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging.
Colbie Caillat
#56. What it is ... is a place where I can return to myself. It's enough of a scramble to get to ... that the energy expended is significant, and it translates into a change in my body chemistry and my psychological chemistry and my heart chemistry ...
Jay Salter
#57. I'm simple. I love hiking, going to the gym, doing some simple stuff. I love being outdoors, I love bike riding. Just stuff that's fun!
Lea Michele
#58. 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
#59. Ideal date is doing something new, either hiking a new place I've not been, or learning something weird and new like pottery ... and then a meal.
Emmy Rossum
#60. Few things in this world evoke scrotum-shriveling fear in a man like a group of frowning women, enraged to the point of atypical silence, ambling toward him with an obvious agenda.
Michael Gurnow
#61. What really helps motivate me to walk are my dogs, who are my best pals. They keep you honest about walking because when it's time to go, you can't disappoint those little faces.
Wendie Malick
#62. I am so lazy. I really don't have a regimen. When I was younger I used to be into cardio and taebo and step-orobics and hiking. Lately, I haven't done anything at all. I'd like to get into yoga, but I've been really bad.
Bianca Lawson
#63. Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity.
Pearl Zhu
#65. I try to walk at least three times a week for 40 minutes or an hour. I do it at the gym on the treadmill, or I go hiking outside.
Ana De La Reguera
#66. All over America highschool and college kids thinking 'Jack Duluoz is 26 years old and on the road all the time hitch hiking' while there I am almost 40 years old, bored and jaded
Jack Kerouac
#67. In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.
John Mackey
#68. I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.
Toby Stephens
#69. While I'm in L.A. I always make time for my favorite activity which is hiking. The trails in California are amazing, as they are always challenging, and I never get bored from all the beautiful scenery.
Dylan Lauren
#70. There are approximately nine trillion cells in my body and every single one of them hates hiking. And walking. Just moving for extended periods of time in general, really. All nine trillion of us would rather be in bed.
Sara Wolf
#71. 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
#72. Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.
Joseph Monninger
#73. Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.
Mark Udall
#74. One evangelical scientist who had felt his doubts falling away from him when he was hiking in the mountains and came upon a frozen waterfall - in fact a trinity of a frozen waterfall, with three parts to it. At that moment, I felt my resistance leave me. And it was a great sense of relief.
Rebecca Goldstein
#75. She was my mirror image, slightly distorted, flipped, older, larger, more able to coexist with a pack of men. I'd be their pawn. She was their queen.
Aspen Matis
#76. How could I explain the sort of twisted fantasies I'd had to play out to Frank? Most of them I didn't even understand myself. Like being drenched in maple syrup and having acorns thrown at me by a guy wearing nothing but hiking boots.
Nicole Castle
#77. I work out all the time. Cardio, resistance and a lot of jogging. I love to go hiking. I'm going to invest this in myself, into my self-worth, into my self-esteem.
Fergie
#78. Basically, high protein, low carb. I work out three to four times a week. I definitely don't do the same thing every day, whether it be spinning or hiking or walking or doing the treadmill. I try to do something different every day. But definitely the one thing is, I sweat.
Molly Sims
#79. Abhorrent and beyond inappropriate, reachable only through hours of hiking into the Realm of Really Goddam Wrong.
Sarah Wendell
#80. I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.
Clive Standen
#81. Walking takes longer ... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
Edward Abbey
#82. I felt like I belonged to an ancient tradition of all young people given this same task of finding their own ways through to the futures they wanted for themselves.
Aspen Matis
#83. I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.
Kate Klise
#84. What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in ... but it sure is beautiful.
Joss Whedon
#85. But I couldn't say any of this yet. No one answer felt it could contain anything close to the truth about her. My thoughts of my mother were wild chaos, I didn't know how to tell him we'd been enmeshed for as long as I could remember.
Aspen Matis
#86. I had once again proven that again alone, I was again enough.
Aspen Matis
#87. Hiking is sort of like strip poker: by the end, all the participants are hot, sweaty, and nearly naked, and the winner is the person who wore the most layers.
Winona Dimeo-Ediger
#88. When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make bamboo rafts to sail down rivers.
Rory Stewart
#89. I like Yoga. I run. I go hiking. I'm very active. I like being outside.
Reese Witherspoon
#90. In Massachusetts and Vermont, there had been plenty of mosquitoes, but in New Hampshire, they had reinforcements.
Jennifer Pharr Davis
#91. I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.
Nolan Gould
#92. Investing the time in climbing, descending, or traversing toward a new perspective is always worthwhile.
Colleen Mariotti
#93. ... my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The Art of Fiction, No. 68. The Paris Review, No. 82, Winter 1981.)
Carlos Fuentes
#94. Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.
Cindy Ross
#95. I walked home holding Tom's hand, not letting it go even as he tottered across a soccer field where there was nothing that could hurt him.
Aspen Matis
#96. I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.
Greta Scacchi
#97. I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
Nathan Fillion
#98. Why are you telling me?" Maura asked. "Why is your face so red?"
"Because you're my mother. Because you're an authority figure. Because you're supposed to inform people of your travel plans when you're hiking on dangerous trails. This is what my face always looks like.
Maggie Stiefvater
#99. Aside from marrying my husband and having my children, hiking the PCT was the best thing I ever did. The hike very literally forced me to put one foot in front of the other at a time when emotionally I didn't think I could do that.
Cheryl Strayed
#100. A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
Edward Abbey
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