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I only went out for a
walk, and finally concluded to stay out until
sundown:
for going out, I
found, was really going in. John Muir
I have two doctors, my
left leg and my right. George Macauley
Trevelyan
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and
of all the exercises walking is the best.
Thomas Jefferson
Why do we even bother to
read palms?
Feet are so much more revealing.
Elizabeth Kastor, LA Times
The sum of the whole is
this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy.
The best way to lengthen out
our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.
Charles Dickens
Angels whisper to a man
when he goes for a walk. Raymond Inmon
We live with our heels as well
as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.
John Muir
Above all do not lose your
desire to walk. Everyday I walk myself
into a state of well being and walk
away from every illness. Soren
Kierkegaard
Thoughts come clearly
while one walks. Thomas Mann
To rove about, musing,
that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher,
a good way of spending
time.... Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
That's the best thing about walking, the journey
itself. It doesn't matter much whether you get where you're going or not.
You'll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home.
Edward Abbey
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace Stevens
'Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a
snail, 'There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.'
Lewis Carroll
People usually consider walking on
water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk
either on water or in thin air,
but to walk on earth. Every day we are
engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize:
a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black,
curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
Thich Nhat Hanh
My very walk should be a jig.
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
When I travel I like to leave my beast
behind…I am willing to ride if the thing in hand is unimportant, or if,
perchance, my companion is a centaur; but when my affair is weighty let me
go it on foot.
Alfred Barron, Walking as a
Fine Art, 1875
I see men as trees, walking.
St. Mark 8:24
Man models himself on Earth,
Earth on Heaven,
Heaven on the Way,
and the Way on Nature.
Lao-Tzu
All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to
see things whole. Hal Borland
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Carlos Castenda
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Abraham Lincoln
I walk chiefly to visit natural objects, but I sometimes
go on foot to visit myself.
Alfred Barron, Walking as a Fine Art,
1875
Solvitur ambulando…“It is solved by walking.”
Latin proverb
After a day's walk everything has twice its usual
value. George Macauley Trevelyan
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