464 Quotes About Walking

Just as there are several solitudes, so there are several silences.

He wasn’t walking to find his own identity, or to rediscover a disguised singularity, or to get a rest from shuffling masks; but walking long distances to find in himself the man from another age, the first man. Walking, but not as one might go to the desert to escape the world and its horrors, purified by solitude, prepared for one’s celestial destiny. But walking to find in himself the man fresh from the hands of Nature, the absolute primitive.

Walking affirms, suspects, guesses, transgresses, respects, etc., the trajectories it “speaks”. All modalities play a part in it, changing from step to step and redistributed in proportions, successions, intensities that vary with the moment, the route, the stroller. The indefinable diversity of these operations of utterance. They cannot be reduced to any graphic tracing.

Going out for a walk is the most satisfying endeavour that one can implement in a day.

our social organism tended to undergo a process of fission, breaking up into small groups of two or three, the relative positions of which were determined, as our mathematical member would say, by their several walking coefficients, together with the strength and duration of their talking propensities.

It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way. Pg 27

Every step of the walk unburdens us of what we have just seen and thought while it simultaneously thrusts us into the previously unknown.

A hazmat suit is like a walking sauna.

Solvitur Ambulando.