Many, well okay…all of the quotes below I’ve “borrowed” from either quote sites like ThinkExist.com, sites like Goodreads.com or travel blogs like AdventureMatters.com. My thanks for those who have actually done the work of finding and cataloging them. Having said that, I will also admit that I have not checked the accurateness of attribution. Maybe I should have, because as Abraham Lincoln so aptly stated, “The problem with quotes from the internet is it is hard to verify their authenticity”.
“Not all who wander are lost” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us” ~ Emerson
“Never did I think so much, exist so vividly, and experience so much, never have I been so much myself — if I may use that expression – as in the journeys I have taken alone and on foot.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Take this simple test to see if you qualify for solo camping. Shine a flashlight in one ear. If the beam shines out the ear, do not go into the woods alone.” ~ Bruce Cochran
“The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.” ~ Havelock Ellis
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he
imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” ~ Thoreau
“Life is an adventure. It’s not the destination that’s rewarding, it’s the journey along the way.” ~
Unknown
“The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our
breath away.” ~ Unknown
“And remember, there are no bad days of hiking – some just aren’t as nice as others.” ~ Don
Desrosiers
“To laugh often and have loved much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of
children; To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To
appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a little better, Whether by a healthy
child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To have played and laughed with enthusiasm
and sung with exultation; To know even one life has breathed easier. Because you have lived…this is to
have succeeded.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The forest is under my fingernails. A mountain stream runs through me. My skin smells like the rotting
leaves underfoot. I inhabit these woods no less than fleeting deer or chattering chipmunks… Today, this
hour, this moment, I am a woodswalker. Nothing more, nothing less. And that once-and-future life of
mine back in the lowlands is only a vague concept, a fading memory.” ~ Walk McLaughlin
“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”
? Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
“I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.” ? Hermann Hesse
“They say Alexander the Great slept with ‘The Iliad’ beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ as if it were the sweet body of a woman.” ? Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
“In coming to Alaska, McCandless yearned to wander uncharted country, to find a blank spot on the map. In 1992, however, there were no more blank spots on the map—-not in Alaska, not anywhere. But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map. In his own mind, if nowhere else, the terra would thereby remain incognita.” ? Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
“If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a ‘wandering to find home,” why should we not look forward to the arrival?” — C.S. Lewis
“I do not know why I go on. I do not search for truth. I do not believe in it. But I believe in something. Maybe simply in the beauty of the world which I wander or in the will to live itself.” — Needs Source
“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment” — Hilaire Belloc
“My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.” — Elayne Boosler
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.” — Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy
“I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with.” — Plato
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” — Lewis Carroll
“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.” — Chuck Palahniuk
“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we’re really not that different, me and you.” — Colin Raye
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