WALKING QUOTES IV

quotations about walking

You need special shoes for hiking -- and a bit of a special soul as well.

EMME WOODHULL-BÄCHE

attributed, Hiking and Backpacking


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

The House of Europe


If you seek creative ideas go walking.
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.

RAYMOND INMON

attributed, Quote Unquote


Bipedal walking is the primary method of getting from here to there, apart from the initial stages of shuffling, rolling, crawling, and other methods that are part of our developmental process.

ARTHUR E. CHAPMAN

Biomechanical Analysis of Fundamental Human Movements


Walking is a year-round activity, and need not be confined to the dry summer months, for there is as much beauty to be found in the countryside in the leafless months of winter as in vibrant spring and the golden days of autumn.

KEV REYNOLDS

Walking in Kent


He put on a little knapsack and he walked through Indiana and Kentucky and North Carolina and Georgia clear to Florida. He walked among farmers and mountain people, among swamp people and fishermen. And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country. Because he loved true things he tried to explain.

JOHN STEINBECK

Cannery Row

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When you're walking you see everything close up. You hear the sounds -- the birds singing, the frogs croaking, and the like. But you also learn the lore of inanimate objects while you make a little on the side: You find pennies, nickels, dimes, even quarters, and, very, very rarely, a half dollar, a denomination that we almost never see these days.

LARRY PENNY

"Nature Notes: A Good Walk, Unspoiled", The East-Hampton Star, April 13, 2017


Purposeless walking is not without purpose -- it is actually meditation in motion.

BISHWANATH GHOSH

"The World on Foot", The Hindu, February 5, 2016


When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. They planted groves and walks of Plantanes, where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air. Of course, it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walking

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I have done too many 5K's to count, a couple of 10K's, and two half marathons. I walk more than run and am known to register under an alias, so there is no public record of my time.

TAMMY DAVIS

"Life is a Balancing Act", Columbia Star, April 21, 2017


Walking the streets texting isn't much safer than walking them with a blindfold on.

CASEY NEISTAT

op-ed video, New York Times, January 9, 2012


The general aim of walking is to move the mass of a jointed segmented body horizontally from one place to another.

ARTHUR E. CHAPMAN

Biomechanical Analysis of Fundamental Human Movements


From the child's first faltering step across the homely carpet, to the astronaut's "one giant stride for mankind" over the alien moon dust, walking is the simplest but most glorious declaration of human independence.

DUNCAN MINSHULL

The Vintage Book Of Walking


The truth is, walking is an art. It takes skill to walk, just as it takes skill to go hiking or rock climbing. Think about it like this: Why do people hike? When they're done, do they talk about how exhausted they were and justify the hike as exercise? Some first-timers might, but for regular hikers this is hardly the case. People hike because there's something beautiful and joyous about it, whether for the beauty of the scenery or an uplifting feeling in the body.

JACK PORTER

"People Need to Remember: Walking Is the Best Medicine", The Daily Utah Chronicle, January 27, 2016


Here's the thing: if you think distracted walking is what's causing more people being killed, ask yourself what happens when two pedestrians collide. Usually nothing. But that's not the case when you add cars and trucks to the mix.

JOSEPH CUTRUFO

"If You Think Distracted Walking Is Dangerous, Ask Yourself What Happens When Two Pedestrians Collide", Mobilizing the Region, March 30, 2017


I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

FRED ALLEN

attributed, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

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Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."

GEORGE W. BUSH

attributed, 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About Texas

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It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

MICHEL DE CERTEAU

The Practice of Everyday Life


A line is a dot that went for a walk.

PAUL KLEE

attributed, Quick Quotations

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I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least--and it is commonly more than that--sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walking

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