There is nothing like walking to get the feel
of a country. A fine
landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken
at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast.
- Paul Scott Mowrer
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
- G. M. Trevelyan
In every walk with nature one receives far more
than he seeks.
- John Muir
It is not talking but walking that will bring
us to heaven.
- Matthew Henry
If you want to know if your brain is flabby,
feel your legs.
- Bruce
Barton
If you look for the truth outside yourself, It
gets farther and farther
away. Today walking alone, I meet it everywhere I step. It is the same
as me, yet I am not it. Only if you understand it in this way Will you
merge with the way things are.
- Tung-Shan
Our way is not
soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks but it goes upward
forward toward the sun.
- Ruth Westheimer
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will
flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their
freshness into you,
and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like falling
leaves.
- John Muir
All truly great thoughts are conceived by
walking.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The longest journey begins with a single step.
- Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
If you are seeking
creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes
for a walk.
- Raymond Inmon
I am a slow walker but I never walk backwards.
- Abraham Lincoln
It's when you safe at home that you're having
an adventure.
When you're having an adventure wish you were safe at home.
- Thorton
Wilder
I can only meditate when I am walking. When I
stop, I cease to think;
my mind works only with my legs.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
Never have a path for walking on less than
three feet wide.
- Martin Hoyles
A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.
- Dan Kiley, American landscape designer
Walking would teach people the quality that
youngsters find so hard to
learn patience.
- Edward P. Weston
I like long walks especially when they are
taken by people who annoy me.
- Fred Allen
Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by
walking.
- Antonio Machado
Happy is the man who has acquired the love of
walking for its own sake!
- W.J. holland
There is this to be said for walking: It's the
one mode of human
locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect,
as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog.
-
Edward Abbey
"The rhythm of walking generates a kind of
rhythm of
thinking, and
the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage
through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between
internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also
a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it.
A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was
there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making."
- Rebecca Solnit
Some people like to make a little garden out of
life and walk down a
path.
- Jean Anouilh
He who limps is still walking.
- Stanislaw J. Lec
It is not talking but walking that will bring
us to heaven.
- Matthew Henry
To find new things, take the path you
took yesterday.
- John Burroughs
Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in
fear and dread, And
having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head, Because
he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
- Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
If a walker is indeed an individualist there is
nowhere he can't go
at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans
life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink
from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss
off walking - one sport you shouldn't
have to reserve a time and a court for.
- Edward Hoagland
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the
lake.
- Wallace Stevens
Singing the same song at a different tone,
In thoughts, destined to die, unknown.
Born unto a world not of our own,
We walked together, walking alone.
- Michael R. Anderson, Walking Alone
The place where you lose the trail is not
necessarily the place where
it ends.
- Tom Brown, Jr.
My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- Aldous Huxley
Of all exercises walking is the best.
- Thomas Jefferson
Walking around
an early spring garden--
going nowhere.
- Kyoshi
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
- Robert L. Stevenson
It has been said that there are landscapes one
can
walk through, landscapes which can be gazed upon,
landscapes in which one may dwell... Those fit for
walking through or being gazed upon are not equal
to those in which one may dwell or ramble.
- Kuo Hsi
Don't think you're on the right road just
because it's a well-beaten
path.
- Author Unknown
To find the universal elements enough; to find
the air and the water
exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter;
to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest
or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple
life.
- John Burroughs
The contented person enjoys the scenery of a
detour.
- Author Unknown
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
- Steven Wright
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the
scenery you miss by going
to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
- Eddie Cantor
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb
I was the world in which I walked.
- Wallace Stevens
It's amazing how much time one can spend in a
garden doing
nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the nicest part
of gardening is walking around in a daze, idly deadheading
the odd dahlia, wondering where on earth to squeeze in yet
another impulse buy, debating whether to move the recalcitrant
artemisia one more time, or daydreaming
about where to put the pergola.
- Jane Garmey, A Writer in the Garden
A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the
ancient Egyptians prescribed
walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering
drug we took daily.
- Paul Fleischman, Seedfolks
Good walking leaves no track behind it.
- Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
Some do not walk at all; others walk in the
highways; a few walk across
lots.
- Henry David Thoreau, Walking
Walking is the great adventure, the first
meditation, a practice of
heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance
between spirit and humility.
- Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild
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
I like long walks, especially when they are
taken by people who annoy
me.
- Chris Howell
A man's health can be judged by which he takes
two at a time - pills or stairs.
- Joan Welsh
Walks: The body advances, while the mind
flutters around it like a
bird.
- Jules Renard
Our true home is in the present moment. To live
in the present moment
is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The
miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment…
- Thich
Nhat Hanh
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the
path can substitute for
putting one foot in front of the other.
- M. C. Richards
All walking is discovery. On foot we take the
time to see things whole.
- Hal Borland
It is good to collect things; it is better to take walks.
- Anatole France
Before supper take a little walk, after supper
do the same.
- Erasmus
An early morning walk is a blessing for the
whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
When one walks, one is brought into touch first
of all with the
essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of
the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every
man one meets is an individual.
- Aleister Crowley
It takes days of practice to learn the art of
sauntering. Commonly we
stride through the out-of-doors too swiftly to see more than the most
obvious and prominent things. For observing nature, the best pace is a
snail's pace.
- Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons
Make the commitment to gradually improve both
your exercise performance
and your eating habits. Take your time, what's the
hurry? View it as a journey to improve yourself. Although this
is difficult, focus on the journey, not the end result.
- Bob Greene
One thing that you find out when you have been
practicing mindfulness
for a while is that nothing is quite as simple as it appears. This is
as true for walking as it is for anything else. For one thing, we carry
our mind around with us when we walk, so we are usually absorbed in our
own thoughts to one extent or another. We are hardly ever just walking,
even
when we are just going out for a walk. Walking meditation involves
intentionally attending to the experience of walking itself. This
brings your attention to the actual experience of walking as you are
doing it, focusing on the sensations in your feet and legs, feeling
your whole body moving. You can also integrate awareness of your
breathing with the experience.
- John Kabat-Zinn
The mere thought of walking outdoors on a
brilliant golden-blue day
causes fire-works of delight to go off in most people's psyche. It
gives one an instant feeling of happiness and that is meditation! We
are not only in touch, at that moment, with the physical splendour of
nature, but also with the beauty of merging our own spiritual nature
with it.
- Karen Zebroff
