Feet And Walking Quotes

• Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

  Gary Snyder

  Adventure, Humility, Walking Meditation

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.19, Counterpoint Press

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• Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

  Steven Wright

  Fun, Work, Distance

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• The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

  Joseph Joubert

  Anger, Hiking, Long Walks

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• If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, Hiking, Should

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• 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

  Nature, Flower, Adventure

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.427, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, Journey, Shoes

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Hiking, Entrepreneur, Desire

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• You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Graduation, Confidence

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• 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

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.

  Bruce Barton

  Journey, Hiking, Brain

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• After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Hiking, Usual, Mountain Climbing

  G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”

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• Just put one foot in front of the other.

  Austin Peck

  Running, Perseverance, Hiking

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• I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Being Yourself

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  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 away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Sunshine

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Make your feet your friend.

  James M. Barrie

  Feet, Hiking, Trekking

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Sentimental Tommy (Annotated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Every journey begins with a single step.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Journey, Hiking

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• All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

  Hal Borland

  Time, Journey, Discovery

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• Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!

  William Jacob Holland

  Journey, Men, Walking Meditation

  William Jacob Holland (1904). “The moth book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the moths of North America”

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• 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.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Native American, Hiking

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• 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.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Walking Away, Hiking, Entrepreneur

  Soren Kierkegaard's letter to Henriette Kierkegaard (1847), as quoted in Soren Kierkegaard "Letters and Documents" (translated by Henrik Rosenmeier), www.huffingtonpost.com. 1978.

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• Walking is the number one exercise for your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal.

  Stephanie Tourles

  Exercise, Journey, Hiking

  Stephanie Tourles (1998). “Natural Foot Care: Herbal Treatments, Massage, and Exercises for Healthy Feet”, Storey Publishing

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• I still find each day too short.

  John Burroughs

  Thinking Of You, Retirement, Short Life

  John Burroughs (1924). “Summit of the years”

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

  Gary Snyder

  Humility, Balance, Spirit

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs. [”

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