A Walk in the Woods Quotes

Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town. (1.1.1)

Running more than 2,100 miles along America's eastern seaboard, through the serene and beckoning Appalachian Mountains, the AT is the granddaddy of long hikes. (1.1.2)

I wanted a little of that swagger that comes with being able to gaze at a far horizon [...] and say with a slow, manly sniff, "Yeah, I've s*** in the woods." (1.1.4)

If the global temperature rises by 4°C over the next fifty years [...] the whole of the Appalachian wilderness below New England could become savanna. (1.1.5)

Nearly everyone [...] had some gruesome story involving a guileless acquaintance who had gone off hiking the trail [...] and come stumbling back with [...] a bobcat attached to his head. (1.1.7)

The peaks of the Appalachian Trail are not particularly formidable [...] but they are big enough and they go on and on. (1.1.16)

Then there were all the problems and particular dangers of solitude. I still have [...] organs that might burst or sputter in the empty wilds. (1.2.18)

At Christmas, I put notes in lots of cards inviting people to come with me on the trail. Nobody responded, of course. (1.2.19)