quotations about walking
Flies travel like they're named. Humans should be called Walks.
JAROD KINTZ
Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You
To understand the journey you have to do the walking.
BRYANT MCGILL
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
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
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
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JACQUELINE SCHIFF
attributed, Quote Unquote
It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.
MICHEL DE CERTEAU
The Practice of Everyday Life
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
Just start walking. Step by step, day after day, you walk to take steps towards heart health.
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
press release
To walk is to lack a place.
MICHEL DE CERTEAU
The Practice of Everyday Life
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 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
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 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 you seek creative ideas go walking.
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
RAYMOND INMON
attributed, Quote Unquote
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
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
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
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
Purposeless walking is not without purpose -- it is actually meditation in motion.
BISHWANATH GHOSH
"The World on Foot", The Hindu, February 5, 2016