#stray

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way. ↗

— Matthew Prior

#fastest #furthest #his #his way #only

It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#hiking #pacific-crest-trail #wild #wilderness #experience

Okay, time to get serious. I let my smile fade slowly and lowered my pitch, as no human woman could have. “I’m not joking this time. If I see it, it’s mine, and you won’t get it back at the end of the school year.” I growled, deep and long, savoring the feel of the vibrations in my throat, as if the sound alone could save me. It wasn’t quite a cat’s growl but it was damn close. And it was his last warning. Miguel dismissed my threat with an easy smile, and my stomach clenched. Oh, yeah, Faythe. You have Puss shaking in his boots, all right. ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#rachel-vincent #stray #funny

I'm like a stray cat. If you feed me, I don't leave. ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

#cat #feeding #food #houseguest #humor

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#astray #completely #conjecture #contact #enterprise

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#cause #go #present #present world #sought

If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#could #failed #flip #fly #ground

I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently. ↗

— Andy Dick

#believed #god #i #life #recently

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. ↗

— Voltaire

#every #goes #imprudent #least #repent

All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#i #i think #indulge #kings #like