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| If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. ~ Raymond Inmon |
| A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~ Paul Dudley White |
| 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, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., |
| Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~ Steven Wright |
| I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. ~ G.M. Trevelyan |
| My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~ Aldous Huxley |
| When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~ Wallace Stevens |
| After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value. ~ George Macauley Trevelyan |
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| I dream of hiking into my old age. ~ Marlyn Doan |
| No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. ~ Cyril Connolly |
| Solvitur ambulando, St. Jerome was fond of saying. To solve a problem, walk around. ~ Gregory McNamee |
| A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank. ~ Author Unknown |
| Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~ John Muir |
| Thoughts come clearly while one walks. ~ Thomas Mann |
| In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. ~ John Muir |
| 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. ~ Soren Kierkegaard |
| Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird. ~ Jules Renard |
| You need special shoes for hiking – and a bit of a special soul as well. ~ Terri Guillemets |
| I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. ~ John Burroughs |
| The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. ~ J.K. Rowling |
| People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that’s the problem. ~ Chris Adams |
| 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. ~ Author unknown, from |
| Make your feet your friend. ~ J.M. Barrie |
| I’m the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it – really get my heart pounding. ~ Amy Yasbeck |
| He who limps is still walking. ~ Stanislaw J. Lec |
| There is this to be said for walking: It’s the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog. ~ Edward Abbey |
| Walking isn’t a lost art – one must, by some means, get to the garage. ~ Evan Esar |