WALKING QUOTES IV

quotations about walking


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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
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"Life is a Balancing Act", Columbia Star, April 21, 2017


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Walking is one typical result of biological evolution. Walking biological systems do not need any prepared areas like roads, places or tracks; they are able to cope with most of the surface structures developed on earth. But walking needs intelligence, some neurobiologists say it is intelligence.

FRIEDRICH PFEIFFER & TERESA ZIELINSKA

Walking: Biological and Technological Aspects


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 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


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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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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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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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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Purposeless walking is not without purpose -- it is actually meditation in motion.

BISHWANATH GHOSH

"The World on Foot", The Hindu, February 5, 2016


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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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


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


Walking is a great exercise because it's low impact and the more you walk the better the benefits.

IRA CRONIN

"Your Healthy Family", KOAA, April 21, 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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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


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


In a car you are confined to roads, your pace too quick to experience a place. Bikes bring you closer and allow you to stop a bit more, but you are still encumbered with gear. Walking is entirely different; you are fully immersed in what is around you.

CHRIS ARNADE

"Take a long walk this weekend in the real New York: Queens", The Guardian, January 30, 2016


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


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