464 Quotes About Walking

When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.

Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

Tactile navigation - the kinaesthetic moving/touching of the body - is the total embodied awareness of a body in an environment. Knowledge is made corporeal with the sense of touch replacing that of sight as the primary mode of gathering data

A body in motion is a body endowed with kinaesthesis. The word kinaesthesis comes from the Greek word kinein, meaning to move, and aisthesia, to perceive. Kinaesthesis is thus the sense that informs you of what your body is doing in space through the perception or sensation of movement in the joints, tendons, and muscles … Kinaesthesis is therefore an embodied sense of awareness, and perhaps most akin to having an adventurous experience.

the body in motion configures a particular experience of self and nature.

Walker-thinkers have found various ways to accommodate the gifts that their walking brings. Caught paperless on his walks in the Czech enclaves of Iowa, maestro Dvořák scribbles the string quartets that visited his brain on his starched white shirt cuffs (so the legend goes). More proactively, Thomas Hobbes fashioned a walking stick for himself with an inkwell attached, and modern poet Mary Oliver leaves pencils in the trees along her usual pathways, in case a poem descends during her rambles.

I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.

Walk and talk with humility, but be fearless like a lion!