quotations about walking
I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A Moveable Feast
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
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
FRED ALLEN
attributed, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
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
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
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
I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.
BRUCE CHATWIN
In Patagonia
You need special shoes for hiking -- and a bit of a special soul as well.
EMME WOODHULL-BÄCHE
attributed, Hiking and Backpacking
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
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
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
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
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
PAUL DUDLEY WHITE
attributed, Walk to Win
Walking is a technique of solitude, a way into reverie. The walker is not a sleepwalker but a daydreamer.
DEIRDRE HEDDON
Walking, Writing and Performance
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
PAUL KLEE
attributed, Quick Quotations
Walking is the very best exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785
Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.
BILL BRYSON
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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
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
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