Walking Quotes

Most popular walking quotes

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

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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.
If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.  Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
Raymond Inmon The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart

creativity

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. - Edward Abbey quote.
The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key.
Edward Abbey The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

journeys

Walks.  The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird. - Jules Renard quote.
Walks.  The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. - John Muir quote.
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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The truth depends on a walk around a lake.

truth

Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect—like a man—on his own legs, under his own power. There is immense satisfaction in that. - Edward Abbey quote.
Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect—like a man—on his own legs, under his own power. There is immense satisfaction in that.
Edward Abbey Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.
People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.
I've struggled to pull energetic stories out of a lethargic mind.  It's worth the time to take an hour's walk before writing.  You may write a bit less for the time spent, but you may find that you write better. - Orson Scott Card quote.
I've struggled to pull energetic stories out of a lethargic mind.  It's worth the time to take an hour's walk before writing.  You may write a bit less for the time spent, but you may find that you write better.
I nauseate walking: 'Tis a country diversion; I loathe the country. - William Congreve quote.
I nauseate walking: 'Tis a country diversion; I loathe the country.
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
Gretel Ehrlich Montana Spaces: Essays and Photographs in Celebration of Montana
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day 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. - Søren Kierkegaard quote.
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day 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.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. - John Muir quote.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. - John Muir quote.
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
John Muir John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
O Lord!  I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do. - George Bernard Shaw quote.
O Lord!  I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow, as if I had given vent to the stream at the lower end and consequently new fountains flowed into it at the upper. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow, as if I had given vent to the stream at the lower end and consequently new fountains flowed into it at the upper.
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day 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.