- Time of past OR future Camino
- First one in 2005 from Moissac, France.
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Fantastic! You just turned this thread into 100 individual posts!
Not exactly a"printed quote",but one I heard the lady say as I came down a steep slope shortly before Astorga in September.As I passed her I asked if she was o.k as she seemed to be struggling.Her reply will stay with me forever " IT'S SO UNFAIR,THEY SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO PUT ALL THESE ROCKS ON THE ROADS OUT HERE ".Hi All - in a 'waiting for 2019 to switch on' way I was sort of cruising Google images and found a plethora of hiking quotes - some profound, some funny .... thought I might start a thread of hiking quotes? (Couldn't find any Camino specific ones!)
Anyone in??
Here are a couple to start
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Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
--- Roger Miller
An appropriate line from a Tolkien poem: "...Not all those who wander are lost..."
So very, very true!"Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits." - Cindy Ross
Exactly, Tim!!!If you go out for several hours into a place that is wild, your mind begins to slow down, down, down. What is happening is that the clay or your body is retrieving its own sense of sisterhood with the great clay of the landscape.
from Walking on the Pastures of Wonder
by John O’Donohue (late Irish priest, poet, prophet and mystic)
He is actually talking here about being still, but I think he would have been happy enough to allow walking, to get to the place of stillness!!
Love this one! have it a a quote on our travel blogAn appropriate line from a Tolkien poem: "...Not all those who wander are lost..."
That would be from Le Puy to the Portico of Glory, right?And of course Scottish folk band the Proclaimers offer the most romantic walking quote ever:
"I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door"
And of course Scottish folk band the Proclaimers offer the most romantic walking quote ever:
"I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door"
And of course Scottish folk band the Proclaimers offer the most romantic walking quote ever:
"I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door"
t2andreo - you made me laugh out loud this morning!! Your comment took me right back to the early 80's when a bunch of my friends and I would go hiking on the West Coast Trail during summer breaks. In our exhausted, soaking wet (it rained every year) states we were sure that there was a conspiracy against us when we were repeatedly told from people hiking the opposite direction to us that the next campsite was only 1 km away or just past the next beach. It felt like hours before we reached any decent place to pitch our tents. Thanks for bringing up that memory!Some of my personal favorites:
"It's not very far...just around the next bend (over the next hill...)"
And always, it seems, uphill to the pueblo where your Alburgue awaits...This quote is such a cliche but it's apt for the Camino:
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It's one to use on those occasional tough days on the Camino or for that last 5km of the walking day that seems to take forever - simple and very helpful.
Cheers from Oz -
Jenny
Thank you for a sweet memory I learned this song as a kid in Campfire Girls haven’t heard it in 50 years!I looked up a song I learned at the age of 5. My town celebrated 750 years of being a town and all the schools were choreographed into a performance that must have caused a huge headache to the organisers! Our piece, and I don’t know how many of us were on stage, was the Happy Wanderer. i just looked it up and have selected one of many... others have the lyrics on screen. Towards the end it goes; I hope i go a-wandering until the day I die...
I was just going to quote that as it’s one of my favorites and often though of on the Camino. Another, often thought of on the Norte is Dylan’sThis from the first chapter of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings:
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
You can never go wrong with Sir Terry Pratchett."Why do you go away?
So that you can come back.
So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors.
And the people there see you differently, too.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett
In the middle of that killer uphill after Castrojeriz:
"Where's all the air for breathing? I'm not leaving until I know."
In the middle of that killer uphill after Castrojeriz:
"Where's all the air for breathing? I'm not leaving until I know."
Is this the ultimate in minimalist equipment and spontaneity?
Throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence.— John Muir
A little different from those posts which begin "I am walking a Camino in 2020 and need to know xyz" ; insert your own favourite theme here.
It's always darkest before it's pitch black."It's always worse before it gets better."
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.... i do believe someday my walk will be half mine and half dedicated to someone else.
Did that for children with cancer, you know it feld so good..... i do believe someday my walk will be half mine and half dedicated to someone else.
Hi All - in a 'waiting for 2019 to switch on' way I was sort of cruising Google images and found a plethora of hiking quotes - some profound, some funny .... thought I might start a thread of hiking quotes? (Couldn't find any Camino specific ones!)
Anyone in??
Here are a couple to start
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These are wonderful. Wish I could figure out how to copy them
A quote that not only applies to the camino but to everything in life.
Whats for you won't go by you.
Not sure where it's from.
Your Scottish grannie must have lived very near my Scottish grannie! indeed, a lesson for life. You have to be there for the mud to stick. Now where do you think that came out of?My old Scottish Grannie used to say that and also When one door closes another one opens.
I like; If you never never go you'll never never know.