Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1696 – June 4, 2020

Sandra-Schmid-on-Verde-Valley-Train-ride-AZ-1995

Nature, which had for most of American history been something to fear and conquer, slowly emerged as an antidote to industrialization.

— SILAS CHAMBERLIN, On the Trail: A History of American Hiking, 2016

---

Click to find over 2,000 additional Trail Quotes  arranged loosely into 60 subjects. I want the Trail Quotes to be a readable source for inspiring, challenging, and amusing information and knowledge; as well as a reliable, easy-to-use reference work for finding the precise wording, author, date, and source of the trail quotation.

Advertisement

Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1502 – Nov 23, 2019

Sandra-Schmid-with-Ann-end-of-hike-Rim-Hike-03-Buckner’s-Knob-2015-04-18

The transition from walking out of necessity to walking out of desire constituted one of the primary—but not sole—origins of American hiking as a leisure activity.

— SILAS CHAMBERLIN, On the Trail: A History of American Hiking, 2016

---

Click to find over 2,000 additional Trail Quotes  arranged loosely into 60 subjects. I want the Trail Quotes to be a readable source for inspiring, challenging, and amusing information and knowledge; as well as a reliable, easy-to-use reference work for finding the precise wording, author, date, and source of the trail quotation.

Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1208 – Feb 2, 2019

Jim-Schmid-putting-up-tent-Big-Sur-AYH-Calif-Coast-bike-trip-1986

…the factors leading to the rise of the consumer hiker in the late 1960s continue to influence the community today, so that of the thirty-four million Americans who hiked in 2012, less than 1 percent were active club members. As a result, two generations of hikers have reached adulthood with minimal—if any—relationship to the club structure that defined hiking for more than a century.

— SILAS CHAMBERLIN, On the Trail: A History of American Hiking, 2016

---

Click to find over 2,000 additional Trail Quotes  arranged loosely into 60 subjects. I want the Trail Quotes to be a readable source for inspiring, challenging, and amusing information and knowledge; as well as a reliable, easy-to-use reference work for finding the precise wording, author, date, and source of the trail quotation.

Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1115 – Nov 1, 2018

Jim-Schmid-hiking-in-swamp-Florida-Trail-Bradwell-Bay-Apalachicola-Nat-Forest

The traditional hiking community had relied on clubs as net producers of hiking culture but evolved into a loose gathering of millions of Americans consuming equipment, information, and physical trails produced by private businesses, professional environmental groups, and government.

— SILAS CHAMBERLIN, On the Trail: A History of American Hiking, 2016

---

Click to find over 2,000 additional Trail Quotes  arranged loosely into 60 subjects. I want the Trail Quotes to be a readable source for inspiring, challenging, and amusing information and knowledge; as well as a reliable, easy-to-use reference work for finding the precise wording, author, date, and source of the trail quotation.

Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1078 – Sept 25, 2018

Sandra-Schmid-hiking-at-Sun-Valley-ID-2002

If concepts of religion, health, patriotism, and community motivated hikers and helped them forge a culture of hiking, then trails served as the tangible rallying point for that culture. Trails were something physical over which hikers could take ownership—either literally or in spirit. They were a manifestation of the various impulses that had guided the hiking community since its earliest days, including the pastoral ideal of wedding human artifice with wild nature. Despite their importance, however, trails led the hiking community toward a less tenable culture that celebrated solo “through” hikers and, in the postwar period, provided access to thousands of new recreationist who bypassed club membership and took the creation of trails for granted.

— SILAS CHAMBERLIN, On the Trail: A History of American Hiking, 2016

---

Click to find over 2,000 additional Trail Quotes  arranged loosely into 60 subjects. I want the Trail Quotes to be a readable source for inspiring, challenging, and amusing information and knowledge; as well as a reliable, easy-to-use reference work for finding the precise wording, author, date, and source of the trail quotation.

Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1040 – August 18, 2018

Sandra-Schmid-with-Dezi-hiking-Chinaman-Trail-in-Santa-Ritas-AZ-1994

When [hiking] club members come together they are motivated by many of the same ideas that have always invested hiking with meaning. Many hike for health, for an outlet from modern life, for socialization with like-minded folks, for the natural beauty and curious places through which they pass, and—yes—some continue to think of hiking as a religious experience, as a means of experiencing God.

— SILAS CHAMBERLIN, On the Trail: A History of American Hiking, 2016

---

Click to find over 2,000 additional Trail Quotes  arranged loosely into 60 subjects. I want the Trail Quotes to be a readable source for inspiring, challenging, and amusing information and knowledge; as well as a reliable, easy-to-use reference work for finding the precise wording, author, date, and source of the trail quotation.

Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1002- July 11, 2018

Sandra-Schmid-hiking-at-Desolation-Wilderness-CA-2000

Hiking was—and is—a means of experiencing nature that replenished the body and soul so as to better carry on the business of modern life.

— SILAS CHAMBERLIN, On the Trail: A History of American Hiking, 2016

---

Click to find over 2,000 additional Trail Quotes  arranged loosely into 60 subjects. I want the Trail Quotes to be a readable source for inspiring, challenging, and amusing information and knowledge; as well as a reliable, easy-to-use reference work for finding the precise wording, author, date, and source of the trail quotation.

Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #925- April 25, 2018

Sandra-Schmid-under-Isaqueena-Falls-SC-1989

Hiking culture has always been about investing the simple act of walking with a variety of meanings, from religion and patriotism to health and communal ties.

— SILAS CHAMBERLIN, On the Trail: A History of American Hiking, 2016

---

Click to find over 2,000 additional Trail Quotes  arranged loosely into 60 subjects. I want the Trail Quotes to be a readable source for inspiring, challenging, and amusing information and knowledge; as well as a reliable, easy-to-use reference work for finding the precise wording, author, date, and source of the trail quotation.

Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #884- March 15, 2018

Jim-Schmid-on-Appalachian-Trail-in-Shenandoah-NP-10-6-2016

Hiking allowed many Americans to feel a deep sense of connection to the natural world—a sense of authenticity and primal knowledge—without really changing the way they lived their daily lives.

— SILAS CHAMBERLIN, On the Trail: A History of American Hiking, 2016

---

Click to find over 2,000 additional Trail Quotes  arranged loosely into 60 subjects. I want the Trail Quotes to be a readable source for inspiring, challenging, and amusing information and knowledge; as well as a reliable, easy-to-use reference work for finding the precise wording, author, date, and source of the trail quotation.

Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #760- Nov 11, 2017

Sandra-Schmid-Dezi-Rebecca-on-way-Riley-Moore-Falls-SC-1999

…by 1968 the authority of traditional hiking clubs was on the decline and more than a century of American hiking culture had begun to dissolve. The typical American hiker evolved from a net producer—of information, maps, well-maintained trails, advocacy, outings, and club culture—to a net consumer—of equipment, national magazines, and federally subsidized trails.

— SILAS CHAMBERLIN, On the Trail: A History of American Hiking, 2016

---

Click to find over 2,000 additional Trail Quotes  arranged loosely into 60 subjects. I want the Trail Quotes to be a readable source for inspiring, challenging, and amusing information and knowledge; as well as a reliable, easy-to-use reference work for finding the precise wording, author, date, and source of the trail quotation.