quotations about walking
Being able to walk to shops, restaurants and other amenities enhances the liveability of a community and boosts the residents' enjoyment of living there. Not only does it save the hassle of getting in the car and finding parking but walking is a more enjoyable experience and you can more easily take advantage of living in a desirable, well-designed village where people want to be.
JONATHAN PORTER
"Brisbane's new development a masterclass in urban planning", Australian Financial Review, February 5, 2016
Walking is one typical result of biological evolution. Walking biological systems do not need any prepared areas like roads, places or tracks; they are able to cope with most of the surface structures developed on earth. But walking needs intelligence, some neurobiologists say it is intelligence.
FRIEDRICH PFEIFFER & TERESA ZIELINSKA
Walking: Biological and Technological Aspects
Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect -- like a man -- on his own legs, under his own power. There is immense satisfaction in that.
EDWARD ABBEY
Postcards from Ed
Our first steps are among the most celebrated milestones of our youth. But for some reason, as we age, walking gets taken for granted. That's puzzling, since walking is one of the most comprehensive, and safest, fitness routines available. All you need is a good pair of walking shoes and socks, and you are good to go.
BRION O'CONNOR
"Want a workout? Ramp up the intensity for a winter walk", Boston Globe, January 22, 2016
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
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
PAUL KLEE
attributed, Quick Quotations
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
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
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
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
Although there are many ways to achieve a healthier lifestyle, walking is proven to have the highest success rate because people are less likely to quit doing it than with other physical activities.
SAMANTHA MORGAN
"National Walking Day: First step to improving your health is to literally take a step", WAFB, April 5, 2017
To walk is to lack a place.
MICHEL DE CERTEAU
The Practice of Everyday Life
You don't realize how much a little thing like walking is taken for granted. You don't think about it, you just do it. But once that's taken away, it's tough.
TINA CUMINS
"Rio Vista's Tucker Downs walking again, aiming to play baseball", Cleburne Times-Review, January 17, 2016
To saunter is a science; it is the gastronomy of the eye. To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage
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
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
STEVEN WRIGHT
attributed, Quotable Quotes
Walking is a great exercise because it's low impact and the more you walk the better the benefits.
IRA CRONIN
"Your Healthy Family", KOAA, April 21, 2017
The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.
ROBERT MACFARLANE
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Walking is free, it feels good, it helps me think and it lets me see the city in a way that just isn't possible otherwise. Sticking to the same route brings the comfort of the familiar, and changing up the route brings new discoveries. Never before have I been so conscious of the seasons.
STEPHEN QUINN
"How I discovered that everyday walking is no mere pedestrian activity", The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2016
Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.
GARY SNYDER
attributed, Earthwalks for Body and Spirit