Hiking Trip Reports :: Hiking Blog » Outdoor Quotes http://www.hikingtripreports.com Hiking blog with great hikes, gear reviews, and a bunch of other fun stuff about the outdoors Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:06:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Nature Quote : Children and the Outdoors http://www.hikingtripreports.com/2010/03/18/nature-quote-children-and-the-outdoors/ http://www.hikingtripreports.com/2010/03/18/nature-quote-children-and-the-outdoors/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:10:22 +0000 Scott http://www.hikingtripreports.com/?p=435 Appreciation of the natural world is a communication with nature in a language that, like any language, is learned most fluently as a child. Those who reach adulthood without firm contacts with nature must labor inexorably to absorb the lessons children learn in a single afternoon when the language of nature is theirs for the taking without phylum or genus or explanation of any kind.

]]> http://www.hikingtripreports.com/2010/03/18/nature-quote-children-and-the-outdoors/feed/ 0 My Favorite John Muir Quote http://www.hikingtripreports.com/2010/02/16/john-muir-quote/ http://www.hikingtripreports.com/2010/02/16/john-muir-quote/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:20:40 +0000 Scott http://www.hikingtripreports.com/?p=245 Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
~John Muir

John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt on Glacier Point in Yosemite

]]> http://www.hikingtripreports.com/2010/02/16/john-muir-quote/feed/ 0 John Muir Mountain Quote http://www.hikingtripreports.com/2010/02/08/john-muir-mountain-quote/ http://www.hikingtripreports.com/2010/02/08/john-muir-mountain-quote/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:30:27 +0000 Scott http://www.hikingtripreports.com/?p=285 Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity…
- John Muir

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 ~Paul Dudley White

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