quotations about walking
Walking is free, you clear your head, and you burn calories. A win-win-win for sure.
TAMMY DAVIS
"Life is a Balancing Act", Columbia Star, April 21, 2017
Purposeless walking is not without purpose -- it is actually meditation in motion.
BISHWANATH GHOSH
"The World on Foot", The Hindu, February 5, 2016
To understand the journey you have to do the walking.
BRYANT MCGILL
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
G. M. TREVELYAN
Clio, a Muse: And Other Essays Literary and Pedestrian
I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in mixing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose.
JOHN CLARE
attributed, John Clare and the Bounds of Circumstance
If I couldn't walk fast and far, I should just explode and perish.
CHARLES DICKENS
letter to John Forster, September 29, 1854
Walking's a great way to create. The ideas seem to fall from the sky sometimes, and the fresh air is great too.
KENNETH G. EADE
HOA Wire
If you are for a merry jaunt I will try for once who can foot it farthest.
JOHN DRYDEN
attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical
To walk is to lack a place.
MICHEL DE CERTEAU
The Practice of Everyday Life
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
FRED ALLEN
attributed, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
These days, walking down the street may be more dangerous than driving. The number of pedestrian fatalities has skyrocketed and there may be one small thing to blame: Your cell phone. More and more people are stepping into traffic with their heads buried in their smart phones.
JENNY DAY
"Walking is becoming more dangerous than driving", SanDiego6, March 30, 2017
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 lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.
REBECCA SOLNIT
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Walking leads to discovery, discovery leads to knowledge, and knowledge, as we all know, makes us a better person.
BISHWANATH GHOSH
"The World on Foot", The Hindu, February 5, 2016
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
Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walking
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
PAUL KLEE
attributed, Quick Quotations
If you seek creative ideas go walking.
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
RAYMOND INMON
attributed, Quote Unquote
Walking is like the ongoing picking up and straightening up you do in your house every single day. It's not exciting. There's no great benefit at the end. But it must be done.
TAMMY DAVIS
"Life is a Balancing Act", Columbia Star, April 21, 2017
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