We have collected over 70 hiking quotes from greats such as Scottish-American naturalist John Muir, conquerer of Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary, and occasionally the odd quote from my friend Bill to help inspire and motivate you to get out from behind your screen and go explore the great outdoors.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. – Aldous Huxley
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John Muir
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Amit Kalantri
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Diane Spicer
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Virgil
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Anatoli Boukreev
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Carrie Latet
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Robert W. Service
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Ansel Adams
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Walt Whitman
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Wislawa Szymborska
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Albert Einstein
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Anonymous
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John Muir
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Aristotle
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Sir Edmund Hillary
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Jack Kerouac
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Rosalia de Castro
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Winston Churchill
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John Muir
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John Muir
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Jack Kerouac
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Cindy Ross
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John Muir
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Richard Nixon
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Greg Child
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John Muir
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Alex Lowe
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David Miller
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G.M. Trevelyan
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Edward Abbey
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Henry David Thoreau
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Hippocrates
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Every Hiker, ever
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Edward Abbey
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John Muir
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Lao Tzu
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Earl Shaffer
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John Muir
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Sir Edmund Hillary
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Anonymous
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Lito Tejada-Flores
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Dr. Seuss
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Ed Viesturs
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Daniel J. Rice
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Tenzing Norgay
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Bears
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Thru-Hiker
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Robert Sweetgall
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Frank A. Clark
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Sir Martin Convay
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Unknown (Bitter) Hiker
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Margaret Young
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William Blake
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Sam Cummings
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G.M. Trevelyan
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Jamie Luner
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Henry David Thoreau
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Ken Ilgunas
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William Artur Ward
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Hermann Buhl
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Japanese Proverb
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Raymond Inmon
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Terry Guillemets
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Paul D. Boyer
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Robert Louis Stevenson
