| Abbey, Edgar | May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. |
| Abbey, Edward | 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. |
| Amato, Joseph A. | Ardent walker Richard Wagner, was one of many composers who found walking a means to relaxation and creation. |
| Amato, Joseph A. | English romantic poet William Wordsworth sealed his devotion to the country by walking incalculable miles in the Lake District of England and in Europe. |
| Amato, Joseph A. | Race walking…that all-important rule, which distinguishes walking and running, that one foot must always be in contact with the ground. |
| Amato, Joseph A. | Scientist Pierre Curie was another intense walker. His wife and fellow scientist, Marie Curie, wrote in her autobiography that he “loved the countryside passionately, and no doubt his silent walks were necessary to his genius; their equal rhythm encouraged his scientist’s meditation.” |
| Amato, Joseph A. | Walking constitutes a continuous and changing dialogue between foot and earth, humanity and the world. |
| Amato, Joseph A. | Walking establishes intimate contact with place. It attaches us to a landscape—its trees, rocks, hills, and riverbanks. |
| Ammons, A. R. | With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered. |
| Augustine | It is solved by walking. |
| Black Elk | Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is. |
| Borland, Hal | All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole. |
| Browne, Robert | Backpacking forces one, by necessity, to walk the balance line, the edge of the sword, between disciplined deprivation and hedonistic gratification: a tiring, sweat-soaking day ends with a plunge into a cool stream; an arduous, lung-bursting climb is followed by a magnificent panoramic sweeping view; and there is the continuous contrast between life on the trail and civilized pleasures–a warm meal, a hot shower, clean dry clothes. It is by walking this line between sacrifice and satisfaction that one finds fulfillment. |
| Bryson, Bill | The average American walks 1.4 miles a week. |
| Buddha | You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself. |
| Burroughs, John | 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. |
| Carver, Raymond | I dressed and went for a walk—determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer. |
| Chinese proverb | One step at a time is good walking. |
| Crawford, Deborah | Remember that on average, every minute you are walking can extend your life by 1.5 to 2 minutes! |
| Curry, Mason | Beethoven would embark on a long, vigorous walk. (Many writers and artists and musicians walked.) |
| Curry, Mason | Soren Kierkegaard…the walks were where he had his best ideas. |
| Curtis, Wayne | “There is a turning point in walking,” Edward Weston said in 1908. “A person will walk a short distance without tiring. After about a mile of it the tired feeling is noticeable. After two miles the walker wants to rest. If he sticks it out until he has walked three miles the tired feeling begins to disappear. When he has walked five miles he is prepared to walk a dozen more.” |
| Curtis, Wayne | Edward Weston was at once extraordinary and very ordinary. He was extraordinary in that he could walk forty miles a day, day in and day out, for months at a time. Few could muster that sort of stamina. But he was ordinary in that he grew up at time when virtually all Americans walked long distances without thinking much about it. |
| Curtis, Wayne | Even in his fifties and sixties Edward Weston routinely walked ten or twelve miles each and every day, in part cause he was convinced something disagreeable would occur if he didn’t. (In this he echoed the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who was a year younger than Weston and took long walks after lunch every day.) “Somewhere at sometime he had discovered that a man needs a two-hour walk for his health,” Tchaikovsky’s brother recounted. |
| Curtis, Wayne | He was 70 years old. Edward Weston’s typical pace was 3.5 to 4 miles per hour. He’d started preparing for this long distance walk months earlier by walking twenty-five or third miles daily. He tried to walk New Your City to San Francisco in 100 days, less the Sundays he did not walk. (It took him about a week more.) A second time, going south through the US, he arrived in New York seventy-eight days after leaving Los Angeles—thirteen days ahead of the ninety he’d planned. |
| Dickens, Charles | If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. |
| Dickens, Charles | 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. |
| Dillon, Paddy | While some might be daunted at the prospect of walking for weeks on end, staying somewhere different every night, while keeping themselves fed and watered, it is simply a matter of careful planning. |
| Ehrlich, Gertel | Walking is also an ambulation of mind. |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. |
| Fletcher, Colin | Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight. |
| France, Anatole | It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks. |
| Frazine, Richard | When Sir Edmund Hillary made the first conquest of Mt. Everest in 1953, his Sherpa bearers were almost all barefooted, even well above the snow line. |
| Giardino, Pepper | Walking is good for solving problems—it’s like the feet are little psychiatrists. |
| Glaspey, Terry | C. S. Lewis spent much time with his treasured friends. Several times a year he would organize walking tours of a few days duration where he and his companions could hike around the countryside, sharing laughs, stories, opinions, and good fellowship. |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. |
| Gros, Frédéric | Gandhi never stoped walking all through his life. He attributed his excellent health to the habit. He walked to the very end. |
| Gros, Frédéric | I walk to find myself, of course, or else to lose myself; because the beauty of landscapes is revealed to the walker with a crazy intensity; to partake of a certain slowness, to open myself up to the world, to other people and to myself. |
| Gros, Frédéric | If you walk for a long time, a very long time, the sky is no longer just above you but around you too. Everything has a sort of stubborn presence, which is simple in its spareness: leaves, bark, pebbles. Things reveal themselves to the walker in all their nakedness. They have a kind of pared-down beauty, and there is no need to invent new fables or project our dreams. We just have to name these things, and the poem becomes an echo of their presence. |
| Gros, Frédéric | In always opting to walk, we are paying tribute to the landscape. |
| Gros, Frédéric | Kant was concerned with only two things apart from reading and writing: the importance of his walk, and what he should eat. |
| Gros, Frédéric | Once on his feet, though, man does not stay where he is. |
| Gros, Frédéric | Ought one really to walk alone? Nietzsche, Thoreau and Rousseau are not alone in thinking so. Being in company forces one to jostle, hamper, walk at the wrong speed for others. When walking it’s essential to find your own basic rhythm, and maintain it. The right basic rhythm is the one that suits you, so well that you don’t tire and can keep it up for ten hours. But it is highly specific and exact. So that when you are forced to adjust to someone else’s pace, to walk faster or slower than usual, the body follows badly. |
| Gros, Frédéric | Rain or shine, Kant’s walk had to be taken. He went alone, for he wanted to breathe through his nose all the way, with his mouth closed, which he believed to be excellent for the body. The company of friends would have obliged him to open his mouth to speak. |
| Gros, Frédéric | Rousseau had once been able to say that while walking he was master of his imaginings. The last walks by contrast have the immense gentleness of just allowing yourself to exist. |
| Gros, Frédéric | Walking is the best way to go more slowly than any other method that has ever been found. To walk, you need to start with two legs. The rest is optional. If you want to go faster, then don’t walk, do something else: drive, slide or fly. Don’t walk. And when you are walking, there is only one sort of performance that counts: the brilliance of the sky, the splendor of the landscape. Walking is not a sport. |
| Gros, Frédéric | Walking when heavy with fatigue is simply about covering the distance. |
| Gros, Frédéric | When walking, there is always something to do: walk. Or rather, no, there’s nothing more to do because one is just walking, and when one is going to a place or covering a route, one has only to keep moving. That is boringly obvious. The body’s monotonous duty liberates thought. While walking, one is not obliged to think, to think this or that or like this or that. During that continuous but automatic effort of the body, the mind is placed at one’s disposal. It is then that thoughts can arise, surface or take shape. |
| Gros, Frédéric | Wordsworth is an unavoidable personage in any history of walking, many experts considering him the authentic originator of the long expedition. He was the first—at a time (the late eighteenth century) when walking was the lot of the poor, vagabonds and highwaymen, not to mention traveling showmen and pedlars—to conceive of the walk as a poetic act, a communion with Nature, fulfillment of the body, contemplation of the landscape. |
| Gros, Frédéric | Wordsworth walked up and down, murmuring, and used rhythmic body movements to help find the right lines. |
| Gros, Frédéric | You must always start at dawn when you walk, to accompany the awaking day. To walk in the early morning is to understand the strength of natural beginnings. |
| Haile, Rahawa | The Appalachian Trail was the longest conversation I’d ever had with my body, both where I fit in it and where it fits in the world. |
| Hazlitt, Henry | Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours’ march to dinner—and then to thinking! |
| Herzog, Werner | The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. |
| Hippocrates | Walking is a man’s best medicine. |
| Hölderlin, Friedrich | All I need is a pair of shoes. |
| Holland, W. J. | Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake! |
| Hoyles, Martin | Never have a path for walking on less than three feet wide. |
| Ilgunas, Ken | To go on a walk is to think. We might as well call it “to go on a think” because there’s nothing to do but think. |
| Inmon, Raymond | If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. |
| Jefferies, Richard | If you wish your children to think deep thoughts, to know the holiest emotions, take them to the woods and hills, and give them the freedom of the meadows; the hills purify those who walk upon them. |
| Kabat-Zinn, John | One thing that you find out when you have been practicing mindfulness for a while is that nothing is quite as simple as it appears. This is as true for walking as it is for anything else. For one thing, we carry our mind around with us when we walk, so we are usually absorbed in our own thoughts to one extent or another. We are hardly ever just walking, even when we are just going out for a walk. Walking meditation involves intentionally attending to the experience of walking itself. This brings your attention to the actual experience of walking as you are doing it, focusing on the sensations in your feet and legs, feeling your whole body moving. You can also integrate awareness of your breathing with the experience. |
| Kierkegaard, Soren | Every day I walk myself into s state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thing so burdensome that one cannot walk easy from it. |
| Kierkegaard, Soren | His love of walking, and his need for it even—he was in the habit of thinking, composing and holding forth on various subjects while he walked. |
| Latet, Carrie | Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life. |
| Latet, Carrie | Walking—the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise. |
| Lewis, C. S. | Walking and talking are two great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. |
| Luner, Jamie | Hiking is the best workout! You can hike for three hours and not even realize you’re working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself. |
| Malchik, Antonia | Even when we are solitary, we do not walk alone. |
| Malchik, Antonia | He set out to rediscover that human tempo, the motion at three miles an hour that has defined the way we narrate and interpret landscapes for tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of years. |
| Malleson, Miles | Bertrand Russell was an astonishingly active walker. Every morning he would go for an hour’s walk by himself, composing and thinking out his work for that day. He would then come back and write for the rest of the morning, smoothly, easily and without a single correction. |
| Mann, Thomas | Thoughts come clearly while one walks. |
| McCarthy, Andrew | All we’re doing is walking, mate. |
| McCarthy, Andrew | Camino de Santiago, five weeks and five hundred miles…average of 13 miles a day. Most days quite a bit more as one day of 12 miles was considered short. |
| McCarthy, Andrew | I did the math and showed that I often spent less money while on the road than staying home. |
| McCarthy, Andrew | In the life of a walker, pertinent information on any given locale becomes instantly obsolete the moment we pass. |
| McCarthy, Andrew | The air is cool and moist. The sun will have its way with the day, but not yet. |
| McCarthy, Andrew | The path, continuing to fall and rise and fall, grows soft underfoot. The air is mild, an almost imperceptible breeze blows. Expansive views present themselves in the gaps of dense foliage. Cows lumber in fields, their bells clanging. It’s a fine day for walking. |
| McCarthy, Andrew | Walk your own Camino, dude. |
| McCarthy, Andrew | We have been walking for several weeks now, and the routine of road life has become ingrained. Repetition has become a friend, something to be relied upon; it supports our efforts and pacifies thought. Anxiety has abated. The need to constantly press on has transformed into simple awareness of what needs to be done each day. There is more internal space. |
| McCord, David | A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul. |
| McNamee, Gregory | Solvitur ambulando, St. Jerome was fond of saying. To solve a problem, walk around. |
| Moor, Robert | I begrudgingly learned to embrace the monastic silence of the eastern forests. Some days, after many miles, I would slip into a state of near-perfect mental clarity—serene, crystalline, thought-free. I was, as the Zen sages say, just walking. |
| Moor, Robert | Impromptu trails, which are surprisingly common, are called “desire lines.” They can be found in the parks of every major city on earth, slicing off the right angles that efficiency deplores. |
| Moor, Robert | My spiritual path, to the extent that I had one, was the trail itself. I regarded long-distance hiking as an earthy, stripped down, American form of walking mediation. The chief virtue of the trail’s confining structure is that it frees the mind up for more contemplative pursuits. |
| Moor, Robert | On a trail, to walk is to follow. |
| Moor, Robert | Over the course of my first couple of months, my pace gradually increased, from ten miles per day up to fifteen and then twenty. I continued to accelerate as I reached the relatively low-lying ridges of Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. By the time I crossed over into Vermont, I was covering as many as thirty miles a day. In the process, my body was being re-tooled for the task of walking. My stride lengthened. Blisters hardened to calluses. All spare fat, and a fair bit of muscle, was converted into fuel. At any given moment, one or two components of the machine were usually begging for maintenance—a sore ankle, a chafed hip. But on the rare days when everything was running in harmony, hiking a good stretch of trail felt like gunning a supercar down an empty interstate: a perfect marriage of instrument and task. |
| Moor, Robert | Walking has always symbolized and enacted this untethered state. Thoreau memorably wrote that only if “you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again; if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man; then, you are ready for a walk.” |
| Morley, Christopher | Wordsworth was one of the first to use his legs in the service of philosophy. |
| Muir, John | I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out until sundown: for going out, I found, was really going in. |
| Nicholson, Geoff | By some accounts, walking itself was a series of falls, a precarious balancing act that had the walker standing on one leg for most of the time, constantly pitching himself forward, transferring energy and weight in a reckless and dangerous manner, avoiding disaster only by constantly getting a foot down in the very nick of time. |
| Nicholson, Geoff | I like walking: I liked it a lot. And I didn’t just like it in the abstract, I like doing it, and all through my life I’d always done it a lot, usually in an unorganized but nevertheless enthusiastic way, on four continents, at home and abroad, in town and country, in conditions that could be favorable or adverse. |
| Nicholson, Geoff | Walking continues to be a great pleasure. It also continues to be a form of self-medication. It stops me from getting depressed. It keeps me more or less healthy, more or less sane. It helps me to write. |
| Nicholson, Geoff | Walking had certainly always been a pleasure, but it was more than that. For me walking has to do with exploration, a way of accommodating myself, of feeling at home. When I find myself in a new place I explore it on foot. It’s the way I get to know that place. Maybe it’s a way of marking territory, of beating the bounds. Setting foot in a street makes it yours in a way that driving down it near does. |
| Nicholson, Geoff | Walking is special but it’s not strange. It’s not a stunt. It’s worth doing for its own sake. |
| O’Mara, Shane | I love walking for all sorts of reasons—but near the top of the list is that I find it the best way to clear the clamor of the day from my head. Walking gives me the freedom to think things through; to have a quiet dialogue with myself about how to solve a problem. The problems may be mundane, but are nonetheless important to me. And I’m not alone. Since antiquity it has been recognized that a good walk is an excellent way to think problems through. |
| O’Mara, Shane | The good news is that it is never too late for anyone to start walking, even over long distances. |
| O’Mara, Shane | Walking is holistic: every aspect of it aids every aspect of one’s being. Walking provides us with a multi-sensory reading of the world in all its shapes, forms, sounds and feelings, for it uses the brain in multiple ways. |
| O’Mara, Shane | Walking, one of the most commonplace of wonders, that affects so much of what we do, directly and indirectly, can free our minds to reach their most creative states. |
| O’Mara, Shane | We overlook at our peril the gains to be made from walking, for our health, for our mood, for our clarity of mind. |
| O’Mara, Shane | Why does walkable green space matter so much for our well-being? What is it about nature that makes us feel better? Walking in the woods is something we humans have done since time immemorial. Some cultures venerate this experience: the Japanese, for example, have the glorious tradition of “forest bathing” (shinrin-yoku): the practice of absorptive, enveloping walking in deep forests for the soothing properties of being connected to, and fully immersed in, the sights, sounds and feel of nature. |
| O’Mara, Shane | William Rowan Hamilton, the great Irish mathematician, used to regularly walk two hours. |
| Peale, Norman Vincent | Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself. |
| Renard, Jules | Walks: The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird. |
| Richards, M. C. | Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other. |
| Ross, Cindy | Long distance hiking is not a vacation, it’s too long for that. It’s not recreation, too much toil and pain involved. It is, we decide, a way of life, a very simplified Spartan way of living…life on the move…heavy packs, sweating brow; they make you appreciate warm sunshine, companionship, cool water. The best way to appreciate these things that are precious and important in life it is take them away. |
| Rousseau, Jean Jacques | I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs. |
| Searns, Robert | In a world of constant change and flux where being in the moment seems increasingly harder to attain, there is also something about the notion of traveling along a pathway–under our own power–that reconnects us, and indeed binds together all humanity. |
| Snyder, Gary | 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. |
| Solnit, Rebecca | Jean-Jacques Rousseau portrays walking as both an exercise of simplicity and a means of contemplation. |
| Solnit, Rebecca | Walking, I realized long ago in another desert, is how the body measures itself against the earth. On this lake bed, each step brought us minutely closer to one of the ranges of mountains, blue in the late afternoon light, that circled our horizon like the bleachers rising above a field. Picture the lake bed as a pure geometric plane that our steps measured like the legs of a protractor swinging back and forth. The measurements recorded that the earth was large and we were not, the same good and terrifying news most walks in the desert provide. |
| Solnit, Rebecca | While others walked before and after him, and many other Romantic poets went on walking tours, Wordsworth made walking central to his life and art to a degree almost unparalleled before or since. He seems to have gone walking almost every day of his very long life, and walking was both how he encountered the world and how he composed his poetry. For Wordsworth walking was a mode not of traveling, but of being. |
| Stephen, Leslie | The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking. |
| Stephen, Leslie | 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. |
| Stevens, Wallace | I was the world in which I walked. |
| Stevens, Wallace | Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake or park. |
| Stilgoe, John R. | Go outside and walk a bit, long enough to take in and record new surroundings. Enjoy the best-kept secret around—the ordinary, everyday landscape that touches any explorer with magic. |
| Strayed, Cheryl | Each day on the trail was the only possible preparation for the one that followed. |
| Strayed, Cheryl | The trees were tall but I was taller. |
| Stutzman, Paul | Each hiker at the table is simply asked, “How many?” The answer determines the size of breakfast served. A “Three” got you three of everything: eggs, bacon, sausage and pancakes. There was no limit on the number. |
| Stutzman, Paul | Hike your own hike. |
| Stutzman, Paul | I’d complete my hike in one season; he would complete his hike after fifty years. Satisfaction in reaching goals does not always lie in the speed with which we achieve them; sometimes the satisfaction rises from overcoming obstacles and gaining wisdom in our journeys. How often do we dream of a goal, finally reach it, and then wonder, Is that all there is? Don’t forget to live on your journey. |
| Sussman, Aaron | Walking is the exercise that needs no gym. It is the prescription without medicine, the weight control without diet, the cosmetic that is sold in no drugstore. It is the tranquilizer without a pill, the therapy without a psychoanalyst, the fountain of youth that is no legend. A walk is the vacation that does not cost a cent. |
| Sweeney, Jon M. | Thomas Merton liked to walk in the predawn hours as the mist was rising, observing wrens, cardinals, woodpeckers, and the occasional mockingbird along the way. |
| Sweetgall, Robert | We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down. |
| Taoist sage | Feet on the ground occupy very little space; it’s through all the space they don’t occupy that we can walk. |
| Teale, Edwin Way | 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. |
| Thoreau, Henry David | A heroic walker of three to five hours every day. |
| Thoreau, Henry David | An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. |
| Thoreau, Henry David | As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us. |
| Thoreau, Henry David | I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks—who had the genius, so to speak, for sauntering: which word is beautifully derived “from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked for charity, under the pretense of going à la Sainte Terre,’ to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, “There goes a Sainte-Terrer,” a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. |
| Thoreau, Henry David | I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o’clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for. |
| Thoreau, Henry David | In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. |
| Thoreau, Henry David | It requires a direct dispensation from heaven to become a walker. |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. |
| Thoreau, Henry David | The cold-weather walker…When you go out on a freezing morning—snow-covered paths and roads, trees on all sides extending bare snow-outlined branches—moving through that immense muffled frozen landscape, then you walk quickly and well, to keep warm by feeling the heat of your own body. The well-being in walking in the cold is partly from that feeling of a small stove burning in your vitals. |
| Thoreau, Henry David | You don’t walk to kill time but to welcome it, to pick off its leaves and petals one by one, second by second. |
| Tolstoy, Leo | The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking. |
| Tourles, Stephanie | The best treatment for feet encased in shoes all day is to go barefoot. One-fifth of the world’s population never wears shoes—ever! But when people who usually go barefoot usually wear shoes, their feet begin to suffer. As often as possible, walk barefoot on the beach, in your yard, or at least around the house. Walking in the grass or sand massages your feet, strengthens your muscles and feels very relaxing…If you can cut back on wearing shoes by 30 percent, you will save wear and tear on your feet and extend the life of your shoes. |
| Tourles, Stephanie | Walking is the number one exercise for your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal. |
| Townsend, Chris | More backpacking trips are ruined by sore feet than by all other causes combined. Pounded by the ground below and the weight of you and your pack above, your feet receive harsher treatment than any other part of your body. |
| Trevelyan, G. M. | I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. |
| Trevelyan, G. M. | There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right. |
| Trevelyan, George Macauley | After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value. |
| Truman, Harry S. | Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast. |
| Tuckerman, Henry Theodore | The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession. |
| Tzu, Lao | A good walker leaves no tracks. |
| Unknown | A trained walker can walk a 26.2-mile marathon in eight hours or less, or walk 20 to 30 miles in a day. Steadily building your mileage with training allows you to walk long distances with less risk of injury. |
| Unknown | Drink a pint of water or sports drink before you set out and when you return and then every 15 to 20 minutes during your walk. |
| Unknown | How are you going to feel not going out to walk, compared to how good you’ll feel after getting out there? |
| Unknown | How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk. |
| Unknown | I’m walking home to my heart. |
| Unknown | In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of five times around the equator. |
| Unknown | The average adult male burns about 100 calories per mile of walking. |
| Unknown | The miles aren’t going to walk themselves. |
| Unknown | Try ankle and wrist weights for training. Weights in your backpack. Don’t overestimate what you can do. Build in some time of rest and even days off on long treks. |
| Unknown | Walking is the one exercise you can follow all the years of your life. If there is one thing you can count on, showing up in the life histories of men who have lived to a great age in Good Health, that one “constant” is walking. Action absorbs anxiety…helps take the stress out of life! |
| Unknown | Walking one mile in:Less than 11 minutes Give the U.S. national team a call11 to 14 minutes Very fit14 to 19 minutes AverageMore than 19 minutes Room for improvement |
| Unknown | Walking shoes wear out (loose their cushion) after only 450 miles. |
| Unknown | You don’t get old until you stop walking, and you don’t stop walking because you’re old. |
| Van Dyke, Henry | Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to walk and to play and to look up at the stars. |
| Voors, Tim | During their past trails, their backpacks had shrunk considerably to ultralight setups, often not much heavier than 11 pounds. That included all their belongings, from tent to sleeping mat, sleeping bag, and clothes. Forty-liter packs seemed to be the norm these days, with some as small as 39 or even 35. Quite compact compared to my 55 liters. |
| Voors, Tim | Everyone had found their own rhythm, and the order we hiked in had even crystallized into a fixed pattern. We walked in an order based on our age. |
| Voors, Tim | I must confess to being an awfully annoying hiking evangelist. I am a strong believer and recruiter for the cause. I love bringing people into the fold of long-distance hiking. And while I do admit that hiking is certainly not for everyone, for practically every able-bodied person between the age of five and 85, I see no reason why they wouldn’t benefit from the goodness of some regular or long-distance walking in nature. It could be regular short walks, long distance hikes, religious pilgrimages, tramping, promenading, jaunting, rambling, putting one foot in front of the other, strolling, Nordic walking, stretching your legs, or simply getting some fresh air. Putting one foot in front of the other is free, keeps you fit, gets your blood flowing, allows your mind to wander, rests your nerves and stress. |
| Voors, Tim | I walked 12 hours a day—a lot of time to dream. |
| Weston, Edward | Anyone can walk. It’s free, like the sun by day and the stars by night. All we have to do is get on our legs, and the roads will take us everywhere. |
| Weston, Edward | I have always said that walking would keep a man young. Walking is the road to health. |
| White, E. B. | Being with you is like walking on a very clear morning—definitely the sensation of belonging there. |
| Winn, Raynor | Better be careful—before you know it, you’ll start recording distance and time. |
| Winn, Raynor | Is a thousand miles far enough to turn darkness into light? Can using a body in the way it was made to be used reverse symptoms that are thought to be irreversible? |
| Winn, Raynor | Something remarkable happens when you walk a long-distance path. I think you find an honesty that you don’t see in normal life. It unites those who walk in a sort of trail-induced euphoria that gives you a sense of openness, where normally we’re all so closed. I think that’s the place where trail magic comes from. |
| Winn, Raynor | Sufism philosophy contains the idea that the action of walking for a long time allows the world to fall away; eventually the walker and the path become one, the walker reaches the wayless way. |
| Winn, Raynor | We follow the river, as so many have before, along a path worn into the ground by thousands of feet, carrying thousands of hopes and dreams across this same piece of land. My feet join theirs, connecting me to each person that has trodden this ground, each life that has gone before, each story that has yet to come. Our energy beaten into the ground, until part of us has become this ground. |
| Winn, Raynor | We inhabit this path and it inhabits us. |
| Winn, Raynor | You never ever stop until you can’t take another step. |
| Zebroff, Karen | 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 meditation! We are not only in touch, at that moment, with the physical splendour of nature, but also with the beauty of merging our own spiritual nature with it. |
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