quotations about walking
Just start walking. Step by step, day after day, you walk to take steps towards heart health.
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
press release
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
Increased biking and walking is good for our collective hearts and lungs; it also reduces congestion and helps boost the economy.
CHARLES SCHUMER
"How Deadly Atlantic Avenue Is About to Get Safer", The Bridge, April 20, 2017
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 I couldn't walk fast and far, I should just explode and perish.
CHARLES DICKENS
letter to John Forster, September 29, 1854
Walking is free, you clear your head, and you burn calories. A win-win-win for sure.
TAMMY DAVIS
"Life is a Balancing Act", Columbia Star, April 21, 2017
Purposeless walking is not without purpose -- it is actually meditation in motion.
BISHWANATH GHOSH
"The World on Foot", The Hindu, February 5, 2016
These days, walking down the street may be more dangerous than driving. The number of pedestrian fatalities has skyrocketed and there may be one small thing to blame: Your cell phone. More and more people are stepping into traffic with their heads buried in their smart phones.
JENNY DAY
"Walking is becoming more dangerous than driving", SanDiego6, March 30, 2017
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
Flies travel like they're named. Humans should be called Walks.
JAROD KINTZ
Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You
Walking is low cost, can be done throughout the day and is proven to be a great way to improve our brain function. Get out today and take a walk -- your brain will function better.
MARIA BIGELOW
"Take a walk to improve body, brain", Lake Oswego Review
There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
Baltasar and Blimunda
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
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
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JACQUELINE SCHIFF
attributed, Quote Unquote
If you seek creative ideas go walking.
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
RAYMOND INMON
attributed, Quote Unquote
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
I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Lolita
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