Crossroads Hiking Club: Hike #8
Hidden Grove, Tuwanek / Sandy Hook

Nature is cheaper than therapy. - M P Zarrella

Leave the roads; take the trails. - Pythagoras

By nature, men love newfangledness. - Geoffrey Chaucer

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

Noble discontent is the path to heaven. - Thomas Higginson

Chop your own path. Get off the car track. - A.Y. Jackson

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - William Shakespeare

Disease is the retribution of outraged nature. - Hosea Ballou

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. - George Santayana

It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt. - Tacitus

Mouse: An animal which strews its path with fainting women. - Ambrose Bierce

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail. - Buffy Sainte-Marie

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. - Aldo Leopold

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. - Horace

Nature seems to have implanted gratitude in all living creatures. - Samuel Johnson

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. - Mark Twain

Trekking means a travelling experience with a thrilling excitement. - Amit Kalantri

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot

Hiking's not for everyone. Notice the wilderness is mostly empty. - Sonja Yoerg

Followers will never know how hard the leader tries to create a path. - Unknown

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. - Al Gore

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out. - Steven Wright

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. - L Wolfe Gilbert

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. - Hawkeye

Children raced outside. She surveyed their trail - traces of sticky fingerprints across everything, like wee poems. - Dr. SunWolf

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. - Aristotle

A convention is a splendid place to study human nature. Man in a crowd is quite a different creature than man acting alone. - William Jennings Bryan

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

Men became scientific because they expected law in nature and they expected law in nature because they believed in a lawgiver. - Ravi Zacharias

Our society is walking through a maze of cultural land mines and the heaviest price is exacted as we send our children on ahead. - Ravi Zacharias

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness where the explorers often get lost. - W.S. Anglin

The great outdoors is a theme with me; a walking holiday in Scotland is perfect - Culloden and the forests of Aviemore are both favourites. - Erin O'Connor

That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do it is increased. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never follow someone else's path; unless you’re in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that. - Ellen DeGeneres

DNA is nature's own nanoengineered computer and it is well suited for solving cominatorial problems. Combining attributes is, after all, the essence of genetics. - Ray Kurzeil

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground. - Annie Besant

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. - Miriam Makeba

Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. - William James

If you are a writer, you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. - Joyce Carol Oates