Colin Fletcher famous quotes

04-17-2025

Mostly, two miles an hour is good going.
-- Colin Fletcher

#Two #Hours #Miles
Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.
-- Colin Fletcher

#Space #Details #Sunlight
Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.
-- Colin Fletcher

#Fall #World #Walks
The best dress for walking is nakedness. But our sad though fascinating world rarely offers the right and necessary combinations of weather and privacy, and even when it does the Utopia never seems to last very long.
-- Colin Fletcher

#Weather #Long #Dresses
Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months working eight hours a day, five days a week, in order to earn enough money to be able to come back to a comfortable home in the evening and sit in front of a TV screen and watch the two-dimensional image of some guy talking about a book he has written on a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains.
-- Colin Fletcher

#Real #Book #Home
There 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

#Cutting #Journey #Fire
The best dress for walking is nakedness.
-- Colin Fletcher

#Dresses #Walking
I do what I do instinctively, and thatâ€™s me. If you like me, thatâ€™s fine; if you donâ€™t like me then donâ€™t watch me.
-- Colin Fletcher

#Watches #Fine
God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satanâ€”or man to create both.
-- Colin Fletcher

#Men #Light #Darkness
Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.
-- Colin Fletcher

#Sky #Energy #Weight
Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.
-- Colin Fletcher

#Thinking #House #Foundation
Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated campsites, with no more equipment than they can carry on their backs. When pressed, they babble about snakes or bears or even, by God, bandits. But the real barrier, I'm sure, is the unknown.
-- Colin Fletcher

#Real #Sleep #Snakes
Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.
-- Colin Fletcher

#Clothes #Pressure #Haste
By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of simplicity. In this new simplicity you soon find that you have become, in a new and surer sense, and integral part of the simple, complex world you are walking through. And then you are really walking.
-- Colin Fletcher

#Uplifting #Simple #Simplicity
Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But as I walked on eastward that afternoon through my private, segregated, Tonto world (exercising due care at first for previously protected sectors of my anatomy) I found I had gained more than coolness. I felt a quite unexpected freedom from restraint. And after a while I found that I had moved on to a new kind of simplicity. A simplicity that had a fitting, Adam-like, in-the-beginning earliness about it.
-- Colin Fletcher

#Exercise #Men #Simplicity
People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image
-- Colin Fletcher

#People #Importance #Irrational

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