WALKING QUOTES IV

quotations about walking

The truth is, walking is an art. It takes skill to walk, just as it takes skill to go hiking or rock climbing. Think about it like this: Why do people hike? When they're done, do they talk about how exhausted they were and justify the hike as exercise? Some first-timers might, but for regular hikers this is hardly the case. People hike because there's something beautiful and joyous about it, whether for the beauty of the scenery or an uplifting feeling in the body.

JACK PORTER

"People Need to Remember: Walking Is the Best Medicine", The Daily Utah Chronicle, January 27, 2016


The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

JACQUELINE SCHIFF

attributed, Quote Unquote


Bipedal walking is the primary method of getting from here to there, apart from the initial stages of shuffling, rolling, crawling, and other methods that are part of our developmental process.

ARTHUR E. CHAPMAN

Biomechanical Analysis of Fundamental Human Movements


Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.

REBECCA SOLNIT

Wanderlust: A History of Walking


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

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To saunter is a science; it is the gastronomy of the eye. To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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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


The general aim of walking is to move the mass of a jointed segmented body horizontally from one place to another.

ARTHUR E. CHAPMAN

Biomechanical Analysis of Fundamental Human Movements


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

The House of Europe


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


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


Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

STEVEN WRIGHT

attributed, Quotable Quotes

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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


You need special shoes for hiking -- and a bit of a special soul as well.

EMME WOODHULL-BÄCHE

attributed, Hiking and Backpacking


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 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


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


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


There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.

JOSÉ SARAMAGO

Baltasar and Blimunda

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