Trail Quotations

The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.

Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'll be a turning point of one kind or another. It doesn't matter if that success has come on a ball field or in a boardroom, in a research laboratory or on a campaign trail - it can usually be traced to some pivotal moment.

I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest.

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly.

As writers, we must keep throwing problems at our characters. Conflict is the heart of good storytelling. Hiking in nature along a twisting trail can remind us what a good story feels like. It's the opposite of a treadmill - or an interstate highway.

The Humpback Trail on New Zealand's South Island is really beautiful. It is a 70 km walk over about four days and is fairly arduous. You go through prehistoric forest and up to the top of Humpback Mountain, where there are amazing views down to the Tasman Sea.

The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles.

I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books about back then, I get so devastatingly sad, so, so... I feel such a deep connection to it.

I wasn't the only one that saw Sarah Palin vacillate between glorious highs on the campaign trail - and, you know, while she was speaking and at the convention - to really troubling lows when she seemed stumped in interviews.

A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.

When George W. Bush hit the campaign trail in 2000, the precious possession he brought with him from home was his personal feather pillow. The theme of the Bush years was obliviousness. He was famously unavailable for debate and dialogue. He was deaf to countervailing voices. He hit the sack early and always got a good night's sleep.

It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else.

This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.

We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end.

When we got this inquiry from Mr. Silverberg, we called London and we talked to the Royal Mail. We tracked it all the way to their incoming distribution site. It was accepted by the Royal Mail, and it's from there that the trail went cold.

With the increased number of tourists we are expecting as the Historic Trail becomes a reality, Water Avenue needs to put on its best front. At present it is an aerial mass of lines and cables and poles.

We're hopeful that most of the trail will be built this year. But, of course, that depends on the weather and other factors.

With the sales correspondence trail confined to an individual salesperson?s Outlook or paper-based diary, if they were out of the office or in another time zone it was nearly impossible for anyone else to address an incoming request from one of their clients.

We laid down an ink trail to confuse the other runners." ()

We've got a master trail system that has ? laid down on a map ? hundreds of miles of what will someday be trails.

We have no connection that we have been able to find between the three men. So far there's been no paper trail we've found.

We want more people using the trail systems. We've got miles of trails. Let's use them.

The refinancing activity will start to trail off but it will carry into the first half of next year.

We want the 2006 Urban Hot Spots campaign to focus on Toronto because it's Canada's largest city, and the problems surrounding trail access here are representative of the challenges faced in urban areas across the country.

We've seen the success of the Virginia Creeper Trail and hope we can do the same.

The fact that I knew a few National Trail Conference players that went on to play there helped.

We shall all be the losers if we fail to immediately defuse this situation, which can only leave a trail of mistrust and misunderstanding between both sides in its wake.

This property is the linkage that we needed to create new trail connections in the Valley, including expansion of the Bay Area Ridge Trail. This beautiful, undeveloped vista, seen for miles along Highway 12, will remain unspoiled forever,

Many of this country's great pioneers arrived in the state via the Oregon Trail, fueled by hope and optimism. John Kerry's trail to Oregon has been driven by pessimism and half-truths.

Many trail users around town are doing a little trail maintenance on the trails in their neighborhood. This workshop is to encourage volunteers and to make sure they do the job right.

So far there's been no paper trail we've found.

Some observations can only be done from the ground, such as listen for the sonic boom and observing the hot air trail in the wake of the sample return capsule drift in front of the Moon.

Shortly after he died, our board decided to name the new trail for him,

Online started out strong and they maintained their strength through the season, even late in the season when we expected it to trail off.

Nobody's really proven alien abduction yet, so generally there's a trail of scent for the dogs to work with.

Night riding on the trail is chicken times two. It's not for the faint of heart.

I don't have a problem with it. My only concern is that they're far enough off the trail to not distract the dogs.

I did not walk every step of the Trail of Tears at one time. Instead, over the last 20 years, I have walked various segments of it in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.

I am extremely proud to help highlight the contributions of women to our great nation throughout our history -- not just the heroines who blazed the trail before us, but also the women whose stories have yet to be told, who are holding families together, lifting up communities and performing heroic acts everyday across America,

Basically, the trail ran cold until we partnered with 'America's Most Wanted,' ... We hit the jackpot with this particular tip.

If a client had a specific question on a sales opportunity, we had to search them in Excel and then locate the relevant correspondence trail in Outlook, which was very cumbersome.

From the time we knew we were at the Pole, Commander Peary scarcely spoke to me... It nearly broke my heart... that he would rise in the morning and slip away on the homeward trail without rapping on the ice for me, as was the established custom.

He had a GPS (global positioning satellite tether) on his leg, so we knew where he went and there was a paper trail we could follow, ... What money we couldn't find had been turned into cash.

We told the girls that they were tasting humble pie for that one. We beat a good Bartram Trail team (on Tuesday) and I guess we felt like people will fall down for us and let us win. It just makes the target on our backs a whole lot bigger.

To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.

Here's an example: A series of car break-ins is occurring at trailhead parking lots in your area. A reporter writes a short article about the problem, identifying some of the locations of the vandalism. As a sidebar to the conventionally written story, trail users are invited to post their experiences of having their cars broken into, including submitting photos,

Heritage is a word that's international, and I want to link the Heritage Trail tour with the proposed commuter rail line coming through the county, ... We have 181 historical sites in the county, and I envision drawing tourists to the county to see them.

We may have gotten good jurors who had no opinion and could give these men a fair trail but we were on thin ice with the appeals court if we went forward with this case.

We have three years including this year to apply for grants, and we are confident the trail will be successful in attracting a grant.

He was a great advocate of cycling, a great role model for cyclists. I met him at a public meeting in Leesburg. And he got up and spoke to the presenters. He spoke in support of additional trail projects. And I think he was instrumental in bringing other people to the meetings to speak their mind.

He was able to put them on the trail of the truth to find out just exactly what was going on in this scandal.

He knows the energy you expend from trying to get from point A to point B to point C. And when somebody lies and that throws your trail off a million miles from where it ought to be & the lie is a lot more consequential.

We are going to pursue discovery aggressively and follow the rabbit trail of unfair business practices wherever it leads.

John Kerry's rhetoric on the campaign trail is hiding a long list of missed votes and empty promises on the issues he claims are priorities.

Itanium remains a niche play at the high end of the market. If you look at the return on investment in Itanium it's a trail of tears. Pouring another ten billion dollars in makes the story that much sadder.

It had been my hope to offer a reduced membership fee to offset the incremental cost to the high-end users with a trail fee, but since I've now been given a new set of numbers I can no longer support that.

I saw her that September - we'd been divorced earlier that year - and I think she said she had gotten engaged and was moving to Fredericksburg. That's where the trail ends.

I saw a lot of blood in the hallway. There was a trail of blood leading from one end of the hallway to the other.

Our camping picked up after the trail opened and I expect this will increase that even more.

Rerouting could put the snowmobile trail closer to the golf course than the trail that's already there. We would, of course, be concerned about damage to our course.

Paul was very good about the whole affair and said that if Inca Trail adapts to Liverpool and goes and does it, he could go very close. If he does, the credit's his, not ours.

Stand at Cumberland Gap and watch the procession of civilization, marching single file - the buffalo following the trail to the salt springs, the Indian, the fur-trader and hunter, the cattle-raiser, the pioneer farmer - and the frontier has passed by. Stand at South Pass in the Rockies a century later and see the same procession with wider intervals between.

Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into the president's office. ''He's lucky',' an envious person remarks. ''He gets the breaks; they're always in his favor'.' In reality, luck or the breaks of life had little or nothing to do with it. So-called ''luck'' usually is found at the exact point where preparation meets opportunity. For a time, an individual may get ahead by ''pull',' but eventually someone with push will displace him. Success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstone of hard work each day.

Some kids have never actually had the chance to walk on a nature trail and this gives them an opportunity to do so.

Lincoln Trail is pretty good. They worked hard to get the field ready and I went down early with them. They really wanted to get the games in. They worked hard to get the diamond ready. They played two games without making an error, five less than we made. On the positive side, we are finding a way to win.

It creates more opportunities for girls to prove they can wrestle, whether it's with boys or other girls. That young lady is blazing a trail for wrestling in Wisconsin and for women's wrestling in the country.

The appeal of the Trail to me, as someone who's interested in American literature, is that it's almost a time-travel machine - to walk on a mountain that is not too different today than the way it might have been 200 years ago. And just to read what a writer has written about that piece of terrain, and to try to experience the same thing, that feels magical to me - to feel that, Here I am, in the same place that Henry Thoreau was.

That will be obvious when you're riding. If the trail is built properly, then the water and melting snow should run off, but a tire track makes a place for the water to run. All it is diversion of water, to try not to let the water run on the trails. That's where it's helpful to not ride trails when they're not ready.

While the court does not in any sense condone the irregularities noted by the trail court in the way the applications for absentee ballots were handled. However, these irregularities do not require the voiding of all absentee ballots.

We expect to become the premier golf trail in the Midwest,

We are blazing our own trail in terms of what products and offerings we have.

We're calling it the Corbett Trail One Fire.

We're also working on a trail that will link to Wisconsin down by Little Girl's Point. I'm extremely happy and I'd really like to thank everybody who showed up and volunteered. It made me feel good.

When you're that far off the beaten trail you're a long ways from everything.

We're very proud of the amount of bikes we make just in Waterloo and with the built-in trail system across from the factory where we test the bikes. I mean the actual bicycles that Lance rides are made right here in Waterloo.

Voting should go quickly once people learn how to use the touch screen. It's better in a whole lot of ways than printed ballots. An election can be certified in two days. It should also minimize recounts. The old paper ballot machines would sometimes miscount the ballot and sometimes two ballots would go through instead of one. The touch screen will leave a paper audit trail and recover everything each voter does.

We have three miles of trail planned where people can run with great views and no traffic.

We need to adjust to reflect the difficulties in raising money in the wake of Bush mania. Until that subsides, and it may subside when (Texas Gov. George W. Bush) gets out on the campaign trail and we see what kind of candidate he can be, we need to do things to stay viable.

We are doing this to show the Wild West is alive and well. There's a lot of interest in it. Here, the Santa Fe Trail is our stage and the world is our audience.

We're lucky in Wyoming because so much of the trail is intact. We've seen just a huge increase in interest over the last 10 years. I think people are intrigued by the past. If you understand the past, it gives you some direction for the future.

We didn't play tough defense in the first half, and it's very tough to come back against a team with the firepower of the Roadrunners when you trail by double figures late in the game.

We had some good players, we had some good guys on the team, but some things kept happening time after time and that's all people talked about, ... The things that they did, the dysfunctional things that happened, a lot of that became a part of the Portland Trail Blazers, and that was unfortunate.

We're educating everyone: public, criminals, but also people who may've had the misfortune of being attacked or something. They know how to leave behind a trail of evidence: they have to pull somebody's hair out by the root so that you leave a skin tag, and that's where you get the DNA.

We'll have interpretive signage along the trail that will tell you about the early development. About the Seminole wars, about the citrus industry, how the railroad came about.

There are a lot of other very highly qualified lawyers who have more of a public record than John Roberts. The fact there is not a strong paper trail should make it easier for the president to sell this candidate, which is somewhat regrettable but this is a political appointment and, so, political factors are key,

There are many, many different stories. This could be a fabulous historic site. With the nice concentration of Fort Laramie, the Oregon Trail ruts and the Sunrise Mine, I think this could be a really good heritage tourism area. There is enough here for a special trip to these places for tourists.

To avoid the continued attack, they rolled off the trail and fell about 30 feet.

This trail now has the potential to offer more than 25 percent of our staff an alternate path to and from the office.

This will make the trail a better experience both for the visitors and the neighbors.

The president was the clear, commanding victor tonight, ... It's going to give us a great momentum rolling out on the trail here for the last 19 days.

Without him, we might be smelling trail dust out there.

Without him, we might be smelling trail dust.

With the acquisition of Pacific Trail, we continue to strengthen our portfolio of authentic, outdoor brands. We are particularly enthusiastic about the opportunity to leverage our design and capital strengths to expand the growth opportunities for Pacific Trail products in distribution channels that Columbia has not yet developed.

We will have a wet lab, displays, exhibits, hands-on activities, a 1,500-gallon aquarium and amphibian and reptile displays. The following summer we will have a trail behind the center.

We are excited, ecstatic. We submitted the entry to ABA and it was chosen from over 400 entrants - it's quite an honor and it will boost trail attendance.

The Grapevine is a trail section that's 13.4 miles long with an elevation gain of 2,914 feet. Because it's a trail, there is no vehicle assistance on that leg.

The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.

The openness?The trail we have, you can ride forever up here and just have a lot of fun.