quotations about walking
Walking is a technique of solitude, a way into reverie. The walker is not a sleepwalker but a daydreamer.
DEIRDRE HEDDON
Walking, Writing and Performance
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
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
FRED ALLEN
attributed, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
You need special shoes for hiking -- and a bit of a special soul as well.
EMME WOODHULL-BÄCHE
attributed, Hiking and Backpacking
I learned how to walk by doing the moonwalk. I know, you're now picturing me sliding backwards across a polished floor, but no, I don't mean the Michael Jackson moonwalk -- a thing of grace and beauty -- but the charity fundraising MoonWalk: a 26-mile night-time march through London, performed by women in their bras to raise money for breast cancer research. I took part in it a few years ago as part of a fantastically glamorous media team that trained for weeks on end. We'd meet every Sunday and walk beside the Thames, gradually building up distances and endurance, until we were easily covering 20 miles and more. I say easily: I mean huffing and puffing, covered in blisters, and fuelled by Marmite sandwiches -- but still, we did it.
TRACY THORN
"How I learned to walk miles on a midnight marathon across London", New Statesman, January 28, 2016
You don't realize how much a little thing like walking is taken for granted. You don't think about it, you just do it. But once that's taken away, it's tough.
TINA CUMINS
"Rio Vista's Tucker Downs walking again, aiming to play baseball", Cleburne Times-Review, January 17, 2016
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
There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
Baltasar and Blimunda
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 the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect -- like a man -- on his own legs, under his own power. There is immense satisfaction in that.
EDWARD ABBEY
Postcards from Ed
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
I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Lolita
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
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
Most of us take walking for granted. In fact, I believe there's a growing movement to get rid of walking altogether. The prevalence of cars, buses, trams and bikes have reduced the need to walk. More to the point: We feel the need to justify walking altogether. Any instance of walking must be accompanied by some kind of crutch -- we need to walk with others, listen to music or find another way to make it productive. We walk to satisfy our Fitbit or step counters so at the end of the day we can look at our badge of honor that says we took 5,000 steps. We've convinced ourselves it's wearisome, that it's a form of procrastination that takes time out of our too-busy schedules. We treat it as if it's wasteful.
JACK PORTER
"People Need to Remember: Walking Is the Best Medicine", The Daily Utah Chronicle, January 27, 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
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
STEVEN WRIGHT
attributed, Quotable Quotes
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. They planted groves and walks of Plantanes, where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air. Of course, it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walking
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
Walkers are "practitioners of the city," for the city is made to be walked.... A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language.
REBECCA SOLNIT
Wanderlust: A History of Walking