quotations about walking
I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Lolita
Science tells me this: When I walk my heart beats faster, pumping more blood to vital organs including my brain. There's a reason so many writers step away from the keyboard for a walk when they're stuck on something. The physical benefits are well documented: Walking staves off chronic disease, improves bone and joint health and muscle tone and, yes, do enough of it and you can shed a few pounds. There is all of that. But there is also the simple joy of putting one foot in front of the other and taking in everything that's around you at a human pace.
STEPHEN QUINN
"How I discovered that everyday walking is no mere pedestrian activity", The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2016
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
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
Just start walking. Step by step, day after day, you walk to take steps towards heart health.
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
press release
There comes ... a longing never to travel again except on foot.
WENDELL BERRY
Remembering
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
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
If I couldn't walk fast and far, I should just explode and perish.
CHARLES DICKENS
letter to John Forster, September 29, 1854
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
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 easier, you can talk while you're doing it with friends and you don't need special trainers to enjoy it either. Because of this, we tend to do it for longer and more regularly than jogging or running. So that in itself is something to consider.
SISKI GREEN
"Jogging versus walking", Saga Magazine, February 5, 2016
Walking's a great way to create. The ideas seem to fall from the sky sometimes, and the fresh air is great too.
KENNETH G. EADE
HOA Wire
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JACQUELINE SCHIFF
attributed, Quote Unquote
Walking is like the ongoing picking up and straightening up you do in your house every single day. It's not exciting. There's no great benefit at the end. But it must be done.
TAMMY DAVIS
"Life is a Balancing Act", Columbia Star, April 21, 2017
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
When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.
J. G. HAMANN
attributed, An Inside Passage
Flies travel like they're named. Humans should be called Walks.
JAROD KINTZ
Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You
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