(William Safire)
You can't take it with you, but you can send it on ahead.
(Anonymous)
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet
(Emily Dickinson)
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
(Kahil Gibran)
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life
(Seneca)
First, say to Your self what You would be, then do what You have to do.
(Epictetus)
Trails represent a major opportunity to satisfy the demand for outdoor recreation. By their nature, they afford a low-concentration, dispersed type of recreation that is much sought after today. Trails are the means to some of the most beneficial kinds of exercise, walking, hiking, horseback riding, and cycling. Trails enable people to reach prime areas for hunting, fishing, and camping; they lead to areas prized by students of nature and history; they are used by artists and photographers; they help to satisfy the craving many people have for solitude and the beauty of untrammeled lands and water.
(USDI Bureau of Outdoor Recreation)
For travel on foot through the wild, scenic, wooded, pastoral, and culturally significant lands of the Appalachian Mountains. It is a means of sojourning among these lands, such that visitors may experience them by their own unaided efforts. In practice, the [Appalachian] Trail is usually a simple footpath, purposeful in direction and concept, favoring the heights of land, and located for minimum reliance on construction for protecting the resource. The body of the Trail is provided by the lands it traverses, and its soul is the living stewardship of the volunteers and workers of the Appalachian Trail community.
(USDI National Park Service)