WALKING QUOTES
quotations about walking
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
WALT WHITMAN
"Manhattan Faces"
The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key.
EDWARD ABBEY
"Walking", The Journey Home
But the beauty is in the walking--
we are betrayed by destinations.
GWYN THOMAS
attributed, Norton's Ghost
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
BARACK OBAMA
Bloomington Pantagraph, February 25, 2005
Walking is man's best medicine.
HIPPOCRATES
attributed, Hippocrates: Making the Way for Medicine
A walk along the beach is a special treat. You not only find pretty jingle shells, scallop shells, and molted crab exoderms, but also the brown Fucus seaweeds, with the floats that you can squeeze and pop when they are long dried, and the occasional dried starfish or moon snail shell. You also find useful pieces of lumber, fishing line, rope, and so on, among the plastic bottles and cigarette butts. There was very little plastic in use when I was a boy, so the beach was comparably cleaner back then.
LARRY PENNY
"Nature Notes: A Good Walk, Unspoiled", The East-Hampton Star, April 13, 2017
Ambulation, walking, is always encouraged, and a component of the healing process, even if it just involves getting out of bed and walking up the hall. The important part is movement.
EBONE M. CARRINGTON
"Co-workers make walking a sport and a lifestyle", Amsterdam News, April 21, 2017
The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.
CHARLES DICKENS
attributed, A Dictionary of Thoughts
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
RUMI
attributed, Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being
Walking ... is how the body measures itself against the earth.
REBECCA SOLNIT
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Walking is actually a fairly viable mode of transportation.
MICHAEL D'ALIMONTE
"Montreal Is Transforming The City's Streets Into Pedestrian-Only Zones This Summer", MTL Blog, February 2, 2016
Walking is a defining human activity. Walking can be practical, moving the body from place to place; ceremonial, such as religious and secular processions; spiritual, a pilgrimage or hike through a wilderness; social, a stroll with a friend in a park; or political, positioning the body in and through a contested zone.
HEATHER SEALY LINEBERRY
"Taking the museum out for a walk", ASU Now, April 13, 2017
Walking is the one form of exercise I've ever completely nailed.
TRACY THORN
"How I learned to walk miles on a midnight marathon across London", New Statesman, January 28, 2016
Relearning to walk isn't easy. In physical therapy, we put a lot of emphasis on the movements necessary to put one foot in front of the other -- to generate steps. But there's a lot more to walking than steps. An area we've been putting more focus on is balance and stability -- to develop the reactions necessary to recover from a trip or a stumble.
KRISTIN MUSSELMAN
"Learning to avoid falls is key when rebuilding from spinal cord injury", The Star, January 12, 2016
The only requirement for walking is a right heart, mind and spirit. We do encourage people to wear comfortable shoes.
EBONE M. CARRINGTON
"Co-workers make walking a sport and a lifestyle", Amsterdam News, April 21, 2017
What if there was a pill you took one day that lowered your blood pressure, prevented diabetes, improved your mood and protected against depression, increased bone density and prevented fractures, helped you remain independent as an older adult, enhanced your ability to think, and gave you more energy? Would you be asking your doctor to prescribe it for you? Such a drug already exists. It's called walking. If walking was a pill or surgical procedure, it would be on 60 Minutes.
ROBERT SALLIS & KAREN J. COLEMAN
"MDs Now Prescribe Walking as a Boost to Health", UTNE Reader, January 18, 2016
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
letter to Jette Kierkegaard, The Essential Kierkegaard
Walking is the do anywhere, anytime, no-instruction-needed exercise.
BRION O'CONNOR
"Want a workout? Ramp up the intensity for a winter walk", Boston Globe, January 22, 2016
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.
ELLEN DEGENERES
attributed, Age Happens: The Best Quotes & Cartoons about Growing Older
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
THICH NHAT HANH
Peace Is Every Step