A Quote by Susan Orlean

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

Susan Orlean

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Carrying Convicts Hiking Like Machetes

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Susan Orlean
American - Journalist
Born: October 31, 1955

Hiking is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

Jamie Luner

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

Don McCullin

I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

Rami Malek

I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.

Kate Klise

Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm. Ten to twenty miles on a trail puts one to bed with his cares unraveled.

William O. Douglas

Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.

Mahatma Gandhi

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Dave Barry

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Mario Vargas Llosa

I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe.

Rebecca Romijn

I like Yoga. I run. I go hiking. I'm very active. I like being outside.

Reese Witherspoon

I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.