Phoebe Smith > Quotes

“there is something more to be experienced by staying longer in the outdoors than just proving to the world that you can. It's something on a much more personal level: appreciating things in a different light.”
― Phoebe Smith, Extreme Sleeps: Adventures of a Wild Camper

“I may not be good at climbing, may lack the upper-body and leg strength required to make me a good cyclist or an ironman competitor, may have spent my schooldays getting an 'acceptable' for my level of fitness and a 'cause for concern' for my attitude towards exercise, but, despite all my athletic shortfalls, what I lack in agility I more than make up for in bloody-minded stubbornness and unfailing blind optimism.”
― Phoebe Smith, Wild Nights: Camping Britain's Extremes

“But they did ask him what measuring tool he had used to compile it seeing as it was so accurate. "Me walking tool, me walking tool," he'd told them,' at this point she raised her leg up and gestured at her foot. '"Them's me bloody walking tool.”
― Phoebe Smith, Extreme Sleeps: Adventures of a Wild Camper

“I was that Botafumeiro. I was the vessel carrying so many expectations and hopes inside me, trying my best to put on the best show every time, to not let anyone down – from my lost mother, to my employer, my partner and my readers – travelling through life fast and excitedly, yet all the while I was doing it I was confined to a space I’d created, one with no place else left to go. One where others were controlling what happened next, and could bring it all to a halt with”
― Phoebe Smith, Wayfarer: Love, loss and life on Britain’s ancient paths