Mycologist Hiking Quotes

Hiking's not for everyone. Notice the wilderness is mostly empty. ~ Sonja Yoerg

Hiking - much like drinking - is something that sounds more fun to the uninitiated than it actually is. ~ Mindy McGinnis

I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths. ~ Bjork

Be the kind of person that sees an obstacle as a Mountain, and throws on their hiking gear ~ Casar Jacobson

...we're not even really hiking,
more like meandering in cinematic light. ~ Kristen Henderson

I love hiking to the top of mountains in L.A. and seeing incredible landscapes. It really inspires me. ~ Ella Henderson

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

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext. ~ Leslie What

I love hiking, paddle boarding and listening to the Veronicas. ~ Bindi Irwin

I'm into outdoor sports like hiking, windsurfing, water-skiing. ~ Nikki Reed

I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love. ~ Calista Flockhart

I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach. ~ Ireland Baldwin

Hiking and happiness go hand in hand (or foot in boot). ~ Diane Spicer

Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun. ~ Karolina Kurkova

I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors. ~ Christine Feehan

I love being outdoors - hiking, biking, and swimming. ~ Lea Michele

I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing. ~ Bryan Clay

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. ~ G. M. Trevelyan

I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo. ~ Olivia Wilde

I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring. ~ Clive Standen

After all this time questioning whether I could trust myself, my instinct had proven right - I'd found a path in pathless woods. ~ Aspen Matis

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

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

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

I love being outdoors, water sports, hiking - really, anything that keeps me moving! ~ Witney Carson

I'm mostly pretty quiet on the weekends. I either read or visit friends or go hiking or something like that. ~ Troian Bellisario

Every journey begins with a single step. ~ Lao-Tzu

My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, camping. ~ Diane Kruger

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking ... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all. ~ Cote De Pablo

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

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak. ~ Paul D. Boyer

I like Yoga. I run. I go hiking. I'm very active. I like being outside. ~ Reese Witherspoon

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking. ~ Josh Duhamel

I'm addicted to exercise. I love going to the gym, but my absolute favorite is hiking in L.A., particularly Runyon Canyon. It's become my mental and physical salvation. ~ Jonathan Keltz

I'm definitely an outdoorsy guy. I like hiking, outdoor workouts with body weight. But when it comes to getting it done, I can just get in the gym and pound it out. ~ Derek Theler

Hiking is not escapism; it's realism. The people who choose to spend time outdoors are not running away from anything; we are returning to where we belong. ~ Jennifer Pharr Davis

A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends. ~ Philip Warren Anderson

I work out six days a week. I do pilates, Bikram yoga and spinning. Every once in awhile, I'll throw weights in. I like to get some kind of cardio in every day, even if it's just hiking. ~ Sprague Grayden

A lot of my climbing and hiking gear is all wool because I can wear it for a week straight and it doesn't smell. And when you get hot and sweaty in a cold temperature, it stays warm. ~ Jason Clarke

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long. ~ Brownie McGhee

We don't stop hiking because we grow old - we grow old because we stop hiking ~ Finis Mitchell

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key. ~ Edward Abbey

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin. ~ Greta Scacchi

When I have a little down time, I like to go to the gym and try to bank some hours there. I like to spend time with my dogs, go hiking, do a little traveling. ~ Emmanuelle Vaugier

I've always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn't just about doing cardio, it's also when I can get my 'me time' to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training. ~ Mandy Moore

Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm. Ten to twenty miles on a trail puts one to bed with his cares unraveled. ~ William O. Douglas

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

I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer. ~ Jessica Szohr

I know that I was hiking at a very young age because I remember being convinced that it was the trees that were talking. ~ Jennifer Pharr Davis

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing. ~ Ric Keller

In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot. ~ Diane Kruger

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

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

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place. ~ Max Irons

I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking. ~ Jordan Gavaris

I do a lot of dancing. I don't like to run much because I get shin splints. I love being outside so I do a lot of hiking. It's very good for toning. I also do lots of light weights. ~ Julianne Hough

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

How fabulous down was for those first minutes! Down, down, down I'd go until down too became impossible and punishing and so relentless that I'd pray for the trail to go back up. Going down, I realized was like taking hold of the loose strand of yarn on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire sweater unraveled into a pile of string. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost. ~ Cheryl Strayed

shelter and uphill. I wasn't ready for that. Left at 8:30 this morning and pulled in at 3:30. I wish I had a hiking companion. It was nice hiking with Mary. I suspect I'll be at this site alone, after spending last night with over twenty people. Other than the pack weight, the weather makes one the biggest of the ~ Chuck Aldridge

[W]e have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings. ~ Paul Krugman

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

It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night. ~ Nicolas Chamfort

Jack London is a very generous description of my small hiking, bicycling, and canoeing habit. I myself feel like a weak urbanite a lot of the time, because lots of my friends are incredible outdoorsmen and women. ~ Nick Offerman

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

I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff. It's so much fun to be out in nature and who better to do that with than the person you're dating? ~ Adrianne Palicki

I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy. ~ Rami Malek

To stay balanced, I exercise by walking and taking private Pilates lessons and salsa dance lessons. I also meditate and spend quality time with my kids by baking or doing crafts, hiking, going to the theater and movies. ~ Andrea Navedo

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress. ~ Ashley Greene

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

My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing. ~ Douglas Preston

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

If we run into any legionnaires we'll say we're out hiking and show them our forged imperial identity papers."
"What is hiking?" Alain asked. "Walking for fun," Mari explained. "I mean, you're walking long distances, but not because you have to. For fun."
Alain gazed steadily at her. "Walking long distances, for fun. Are you saying a joke?"
Mari shook her head. "I know it sounds like that, but people really do it. ~ Jack Campbell

Vice President Cheney is also on vacation. He's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What better place for a guy who has had 4 heart attacks than a place with thin air, rugged hiking and all-beef dinners? Why don't they get some snow for him to shovel while he's out there, too? ~ Jay Leno

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes. ~ Susan Orlean

What is hiking but walking, after all ? ~ Cheryl Strayed

My most memorable hikes can be classified as 'Shortcuts that Backfired'. ~ Edward Abbey

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem
he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills. ~ William Arthur Ward

I wasn't in a position that some other memoirists are, dealing with families who fed them meth, or kidnapped them, or did something that would make the writer not want to see that family again. I wanted to see my family. I wanted to celebrate them. I was proud of who we were, in the wilderness, floating down rapids or hiking over glaciers, and everywhere else. ~ Leigh Newman

Good walking leaves no track behind it. ~ Laozi

Happy people have everything to give. ~ Aspen Matis

We move through this world on paths laid down long before we are born. ~ Robert Moor

Abhorrent and beyond inappropriate, reachable only through hours of hiking into the Realm of Really Goddam Wrong. ~ Sarah Wendell

I stopped in my tracks when that thought came into my mind, that hiking the PCT was the hardest thing I'd ever done. Immediately, I amended the thought. Watching my mother die and having to live without her, that was the hardest thing I'd ever done. Leaving Paul and destroying our marriage and life as I knew it for the simple and inexplicable reason that I felt I had to - that had been hard as well. But hiking the PCT was hard in a different way. In a way that made the other hardest things the tiniest bit less hard. ~ Cheryl Strayed

It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

I was the world in which I walked. ~ Wallace Stevens

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory. ~ Ed Viesturs

Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing. ~ Jonathan Waterman

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. ~ Walter Raleigh

Mostly, two miles an hour is good going. ~ Colin Fletcher

It was my first lesson in the fragility of attraction. ~ Aspen Matis

Walking is also an ambulation of mind. ~ Gretel Ehrlich

Investing the time in climbing, descending, or traversing toward a new perspective is always worthwhile. ~ Colleen Mariotti

I flushed - this time not in shame - but in rage. ~ Aspen Matis

And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade. ~ Cheryl Strayed

Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them." ~ John Muir

Don't push me, Melody. I'm not above hiking this dress up and fucking you in front of all of Chicago. ~ J.J. McAvoy

When pressed, hunters who claim that they just want "to be out in the wilderness," will admit that the kill is essential - or at least the hope of a kill. As it turns out, there is no correlation between hunting and hiking, climbing, backpacking, kayaking, or any other outdoor activity. Hunters do not purposefully linger in the woods after a kill, but quickly begin the process of preparing to head home with the corpse. For hunters, the kill is the climax - the most important moment. They are not driving into the woods (or sometimes actually walking) for the sake of beauty, but in the hope of a kill. ~ Lisa Kemmerer

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

I wake, the lump of last night
hiking a trail through my throat.

[from "Those Who Love Raptors"] ~ Alina Stefanescu

It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying. ~ Aspen Matis