I'd always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.

I found things in the woods that I didn’t know I was looking for… and now I’ll never be the same.

Something deep within me connected with hard work, nature and simplicity.

One of the best feelings I had growing up was being completely exhausted at the end of the day after playing outside all day.

My motivation to keep hiking was rooted in the magnificent details of the Appalachian Mountains, and the more I poured myself out - the more energy I gave the trail - the more it gave me in return.

Our bodies are made to move, and moving down the trail is one of the oldest, natural ways people have used their bodies.

A lot of people talk about the trail healing them, but I feel like, the first time, it humbled me, which I probably needed. It was a completely new way to experience the world and my body.

I was surrounded by life and beauty. My soul was content, and my life felt full.

I know that I was hiking at a very young age because I remember being convinced that it was the trees that were talking.

I would rather watch a sunset than TV.

One thing I think I've always felt about being in nature is that it's a very natural taste.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.

My work is a mitzvah for the eyes & ears...and it will help you forget about your problems by thinking about mine for a change!

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

Good Lord, woman. Didn’t anyone ever tell you that men have a specified word count set aside each day and if I don’t stop talking, my tongue will explode? (Syn)

When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.