464 Quotes About Walking

it’s ever so 'portant how you walk’.

The groundlessness of modern society, characterized by the reduction of pedestrian experience to the operation of a stepping machine, and by the corresponding elevation of head over heels as the locus of creative intelligence, is…deeply embedded in the structures of public life in western societies.

what the effect would be of overturning prevailing assumptions and of adopting … a fundamental orientation towards the ground.

Walking makes the world much bigger and therefore more interesting.

I walk because it confers — or restores — a feeling of placeness. The geographer Yi-Fu Tuan says a space becomes a place when through movement we invest it with meaning, when we see it as something to be perceived, apprehended, experienced.

Walking five miles a day or more provides the type of low-intensity exercise that yields all the cardiovascular benefits you might expect, but it also has a positive effect on muscles and bones - without the joint-pounding damage caused by running marathons or triathlons.

just a garland of good or enkindling poetry and prose fitted to urge folk into the open air … with perhaps a phrase or two for the feet to step to

Separate what is good from what is not good. But be holy.

Life itself is as much a long walk as it is a long conversation, and the ways along which we walk are those along which we live.