#crest

The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood. ↗

— Edwin Markham

#crest #crowning #final #good #life

It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#hiking #pacific-crest-trail #wild #wilderness #experience

She swept away, putting an extra kink into her walk. I would not have thought that a woman with an ass that bony could make it wiggle so much but she proved me wrong. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#humor #kate-daniels #humor

I run to run." ~ Sam ↗

— Tijan

#logan-cade #mason-kade #mason-sam #sam

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#before #blaze #crest #every #flowers