Quotes About Trekking

#1. Did I say stab of Self Pity? No, I was trekking through the Swamp of Self Pity at this point, waist deep in my own stinking shit.

Nicole Hamlett

#2. When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium.

GZA

#3. Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.

Jamie Johnson

#4. Etruscans sometimes wrote boustrophedon style, in which the direction of writing alternates with each line - right-to-left, then left-to-right. Brilliant! The eye doesn't waste time trekking back to the left side of the page after every line.

A. J. Jacobs

#5. Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.

Christopher Buckley

#6. A lot of people think medicine hunting is all Chris trekking through the jungle. Or, for that matter, the chiefs and (male) elders he works with. The men get the headlines, but it's the women behind the scenes who are doing the planting and harvesting and chopping.

Zoe Helene

#7. I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters.

Arthur Smith

#8. Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.

Michael Kinsley

#9. In two and a half years' trekking across central Asia, I'd become attuned to the late autumn conditions when the hazards of winter can blow in under the cover of darkness.

Tim Cope

#10. Dan explains the trip's itinerary, which includes trekking through the jungle, boating down the Amazon River, and to my surprise, three Ayahuasca ceremonies.

Michael Sanders

#11. Jeez Louise. I know why rich people are so thin: it's from trekking around their humongous houses the whole time.

Sophie Kinsella

#12. If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#13. I'm quite happy trekking around Greenland on my own, but those big book tours in America or the Far East are the only time I ever really feel lonely.

Michelle Paver

#14. I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.

Baba Kalyani

#15. I was generally pro-bat, except when I was trekking through the dark trying not to think about the dire fate of every horror movie character stupid enough to go into the dark with a flashlight and check the fuses.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#16. Extraneous violence is totally wrong. 'Robocop' was violence for violence's sake - you don't shoot somebody's arm off.

Lee Rich

#17. Make your feet your friend.

James M. Barrie

#18. He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.

Jeffrey Rasley

#19. For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

Edwin Way Teale

#20. The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'

Mark Haddon

#21. I was just asking Chad [Myers], how can you get a volcano in Iceland? Isn't it too- when you think of a volcano, you think of Hawaii and long words like that. You don't think of Iceland.You think it's too cold to have a volcano there.

Rick Sanchez

#22. The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.

Tom Brown Jr.

#23. No need to offend anyone in the first minute I was here. I usually saved that for day two.

Kat Austen

#24. Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy ...

Charles Dickens

#25. I was the world in which I walked.

Wallace Stevens

#26. I promise to be with you, stay with you, love you, and laugh with you. I promise to listen and always look for new ways to show you how much I care. Most of all, I promise to lean on God through life's trials, tragedies and triumphs. Because if I lean on Him, you can always lean on me.

Karen Kingsbury

#27. I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

Raymond Carver

#28. Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government ... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged.

Thomas Jefferson

#29. If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.

Erykah Badu

#30. Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

Henry David Thoreau

#31. If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

John Dryden

#32. Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

Raquel Cepeda

#33. Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.

Jeffrey Rasley

#34. - Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

George Leigh Mallory

#35. If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.

Austan Goolsbee