Thats the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesnt matter much whether you get where youre going or not. Youll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. – Edward Abbey
Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger. – Edward Abbey
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. – Edward Abbey
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. – Edward Abbey
I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, theres also complete stillness; theres no mental labeling of sense perceptions. Theres simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and thats beautiful. – Eckhart Tolle
How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk. – Author unknown, from New York Times editorial, “The Walk,” 25 October 1967