WALKING QUOTES IV

quotations about walking

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 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

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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


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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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


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


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


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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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


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 line is a dot that went for a walk.

PAUL KLEE

attributed, Quick Quotations

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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


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 technique of solitude, a way into reverie. The walker is not a sleepwalker but a daydreamer.

DEIRDRE HEDDON

Walking, Writing and Performance


Walking is the very best exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785

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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


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


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


To walk is to lack a place.

MICHEL DE CERTEAU

The Practice of Everyday Life