If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an alleory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest).
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before. Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It's surreal.
There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.
Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.
In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.
The mountain music. . . is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.
Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
I was the world in which I walked.
Conservatives won't want to hear this, but the Republican who maneuvered his way into the most impressive victory of the election was California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Okay, he's sui generis. But he won a landslide victory after moving to the center, while holding onto conservatives by not hiking taxes.
Getting outdoors is always fun. In the summertime, I like to go waterskiing and swimming; during the winter, I'll sometimes go jogging or hiking.
It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.
I know that I was hiking at a very young age because I remember being convinced that it was the trees that were talking.