1. The East Fork of the San Gabriel Mountains "There is no exercise so beneficial, physically, mentally, or morally, nothing which gives so much of living for so little cost, as hiking our mountain and hill trails and sleeping under the stars." —Will Thrall

2. beneficial "Away, away. from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music." —Percy Bysshe Shelley, "To Jane: An Invitation," 1822

3. physically "There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast." —Paul Scott Mowrer

4. mentally "The most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the strangling clutch of mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness." —Robert Marshall

5. morally "It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit." —Robert Louis Stevenson

6. Quotes: http://www.simpsoncity.com/hiking/inspiration.html "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods There is a rapture on the lonely shore There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not man less, but Nature more." —Lord Byron