WALKING QUOTES IV

quotations about walking

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


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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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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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

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When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

attributed, Walk to Win

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

THOMAS JEFFERSON

letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785

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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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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


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


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


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

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While walking is one of the most common tasks we perform, it is also one of the most complex tasks, requiring a considerable number of simultaneous responses to an array of stimuli, both internal and external.

GARY M. BAKKEN

Slips, Trips, Missteps, and Their Consequences


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

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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


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


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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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 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


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