http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Paul Scott Mowrer::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. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::G. M. Trevelyan::I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::John Muir::In every walk with nature
one receives far more than he seeks. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Matthew Henry::It is not talking but walking
that will bring us to heaven. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Bruce Barton::If you want to know if your brain is flabby,
feel your legs. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Tung-Shan::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. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Friedrich Nietzsche::All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Lao Tzu::The longest journey begins with a single step. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Karle Wilson Baker::Today I have grown taller
from walking with the trees. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Raymond Inmon::If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding::We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive at where we started
And know the place for the first time. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Lao Tzu::Meandering leads to perfection. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Edward P. Weston::Walking would teach people the quality that youngsters find so hard to learn - patience. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Antonio Machado::Travelers, there is no path,
paths are made by walking. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Robert Frost::Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::W.J. Holland::Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake! http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Jean Anouilh::Some people like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Stanislaw J. Lec::He who limps is still walking. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::John Burroughs::To find new things, take the path you took yesterday. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Edward Hoagland::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. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Wallace Stevens::Perhaps the truth depends
on a walk around the lake. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Tom Brown, Jr.::The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Henry David Thoreau::It is a great art to saunter. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Aldous Huxley::My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Thomas Jefferson::Of all exercises walking is the best. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Kyoshi::Walking around
an early spring garden--
going nowhere. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Author Unknown::Don't think you're on the right road
just because it’s a well-beaten path. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::John Burroughs::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. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Author Unknown::The contented person enjoys the scenery of a detour. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Steven Wright::Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Eddie Cantor::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. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Chinese proverb::To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Wallace Stevens, Tea at the Palaz of Hoon::I was the world in which I walked. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Paul Fleischman, Seedfolks::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. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Lao Tzu::Good walking leaves no track behind it. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Henry David Thoreau::Some do not walk at all;
others walk in the highways;
a few walk across lots. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild::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. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Thich Nhat Hanh::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. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Thich Nhat Hanh::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… http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Huang Binhong::The more zigzag the way, the deeper the scenery.
The winding path approaches the secluded and peaceful place. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::M. C. Richards::Let no one be deluded
that a knowledge of the path can substitute
for putting one foot in front of the other. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Carlos Castenda::All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Hal Borland::All walking is discovery.
On foot we take the time to see things whole. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Anatole France::It is good to collect things;
it is better to take walks. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Erasmus::Before supper take a little walk,
after supper do the same. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Ursula K. LeGuin::It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Paul Dudley White::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. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Aleister Crowley::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. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Latin proverb::It is solved by walking. http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm::Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons::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. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Tung-Shan::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. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::George Borrow, Lavengro::We must walk before we run. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Abraham Lincoln::I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Soren Kierkegaard::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. I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill...if one keeps on walking everything will be alright. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions::I can only meditate when I am walking.
When I stop, I cease to think;
my mind works only with my legs. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Gertel Ehrlich::Walking is also an ambulation of mind. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Eric Fromme::Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::John Muir::I only went out for a walk,
and finally concluded to stay out until sundown:
for going out, I found, was really going in. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Edward Abbey::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. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking::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. This 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. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Leslie Stephen::Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Henry David Thoreau::Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Bankei (1622-1693)::When you are walking along naturally, you're walking in the harmony of the Unborn. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Joan Welsh::A man's health can be judged
by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Jules Renard::Walks: The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Henry David Thoreau::An early morning walk
is a blessing for the whole day. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Charles Dickens::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. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Ralph Waldo Emerson::The world belongs to the energetic. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Katherine Hepburn::I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Harry Truman (Advice on how to live to be 80.)::Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Ellen Degeneres::You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven today and we don't know where the hell she is. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Bob Greene::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. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::John Kabat-Zinn::We are hardly ever just walking, even when we are just going out for a walk. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Mark Twain::The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.
The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm
and solace to eye and soul and sense;
but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Ralph Waldo Emerson::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. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Karen Zebroff::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! http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::John Wain::Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walking4.htm::Leonard L. Levinson::A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes;
a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs;
an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all -
he's walking on them. http://www.quotegarden.com/walking.html::George McNamee::Solvitur ambulando, St. Jerome was fond of saying. To solve a problem, walk around. http://www.quotegarden.com/walking.html::Thomas Mann::Thoughts come clearly while one walks. http://www.quotegarden.com/walking.html::Ralph Waldo Emerson::The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost use of his feet. http://www.quotegarden.com/walking.html::J. M. Barrie::Make your feet your friend. http://www.quotegarden.com/walking.html::W. H. Davies::Now shall I walk
or shall I ride?
'Ride,' Pleasure said.
'Walk,' Joy replied. http://www.quotegarden.com/walking.html::Gary Yanker::Your body is built for walking. http://www.quotegarden.com/walking.html::Robert Sweetgall::We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down. http://www.quotegarden.com/walking.html::Henry David Thoreau::An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. http://www.quotegarden.com/walking.html::Pepper Giardino::Walking is good for solving problems--it's like the feet are little psychiatrists. http://www.quotegarden.com/walking.html::English proverb::After dinner sit awhile; after supper walk a mile. http://www.quotegarden.com/walking.html::Edward Abbey::Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. http://www.quotegarden.com/walking.html::Carrie Latet::Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life.