Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.
Colin FletcherDetails of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.
Colin FletcherEvery walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.
Colin FletcherThere there is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life. Simplicity is part of it. Cutting the cackle. Transportation reduced to leg - or arm - power, eating irons to one spoon. Such simplicity, together with sweat and silence, amplify the rhythms of any long journey, especially through unknown, untattered territory. And in the end such a journey can restore an understanding of how insignificant you are -- and thereby set you free.
Colin Fletcher