Quotes of: Trail Keyword

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless.

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

It was April in Minneapolis and snowing, the flakes coming down in thick swirls enchanting the city

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

15. For if you look closely At the so called idols of the world They have something in common. They were ignorant They ignored the noise They created their own path.

Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living

Walking with the projected chest Feeling like you just won The race has been tough But the joy of winning is too good;

Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living

You are your art Your are your song You are your craft. You are all the immaculate designs of which you dream;

Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living

A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.

Talib Kweli

So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park.

Norm Dicks

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

Alexander Graham Bell

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of somethi...

Sam Shepard

I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail leading into the unknown to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bread by cities... it is enough that I am surrounde...

Everett Ruess

Good evening South Africa, it is really evening now that the shadows are chasing the sun down the west with a great darkness trailing behind them. I am scared for myself and for you because a long dark night is very close.

Fort Free

I feel proud that I have been counted worthy to have blood shed by a traitor, and to suffer torture at the hands of those who have undertaken to trail our Flag in the dust. Signed, Yours as Ever, Franklin M. Haven.

Franklin Marion Havens

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

Helen Thomas

I'm a somewhat isolated person in my own way, or I move along a little trail, I go this place, I go that place. It's not like I'm varying my exposure.

Jonathan Ames

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcar...

Galen Rowell

With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present, ever searchable, unforgetting external memories that only grows as one ages.

Joshua Foer