Five great quotes for hiking with kids

“After a day's walk everything has twice its
usual value.” Photo courtesy of Dawn Hudson.

The trail offers a great opportunity to teach kids lessons about life. For older children and teens, a good quotation might be the way to impart wisdom or at least a good discussion going. Here are five great quotations I like for the trail:

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir

“Me think that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.” – Henry David Thoreau

“After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.” – George Macauley Trevelyan

“Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise.” – Carrie Latet

“Make your feet your friend.” – J.M. Barrie

Learn about more than a hundred other hiking diversions for kids in Hikes with Tykes: Games and Activities.

Great hiking quotes for day hiking with kids

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown,
for going out, I found, was really going in.”
Photo courtesy of David Niblack, Imagebase.net

The trail offers a great opportunity to teach kids lessons about life. For older children and teens, a good quotation might be the way to impart wisdom or at least a good discussion going. Here are five great quotations I like for the trail:

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” – John Muir

“If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.” – Raymond Inmon

“I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.” – G.M. Trevelyan

“The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.” – Jacqueline Schiff

“Not all that wander are lost.” – Author unknown

Learn about more than a hundred other hiking diversions for kids in Hikes with Tykes: Games and Activities.

Five great hiking quotes to discuss with kids

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”

The trail offers a great opportunity to teach kids lessons about life. For older children and teens, a good quotation might be the way to impart wisdom or at least a good discussion going. Here are five great quotations I like for the trail:

“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.” – Theodore Roethke

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” – Wallace Stevens

“When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.” – Aldous Huxley

“Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.” – Cindy Ross

Learn about more than a hundred other hiking diversions for kids in Hikes with Tykes: Games and Activities.