(Adrienne E. Gusoff)
First we will be best, and then we will be first.
(Grant Tinker)
We choose our joys and sorrows long before We experience them.
(Kahlil Gibran)
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
(George Eliot)
You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor
(Jim Rohn)
Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.
(Paul Newman)
So, good luck to you fellow-hiker, wherever you go! May you never run out of tobacco or songs; may the trees be great and old and the girls young and comely. May the sun shine upon your cheek and the shade lie upon the back of your neck. May you find wood and strawberries and sassafras. But he who flingeth away the bottle and hindered not the picnic paper, he that carved the beech bole and she that expects others to carry her coat, camera and pack, may their socks be lumpy, and farm dogs bite their calves!
(Donald Culross Peattie)
To follow a trail is to establish a link with the history of man. It is at once the most primitive and the most civilized of activities. A trail may well have been followed first by animals seeking food and water; Indians following the game wore it a little wider. Explorers followed the same paths, to be followed in turn by soldiers and settlers and men who poured concrete over footpaths. The concrete now goes just about every place we need to go. But we now have the leisure to travel just for the sake of traveling, and there is no better way to do it than by trail.
(Lennon Hooper)