Sauntering Quotes - Page 9

• If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

  John Dryden

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

  William Whitehead, Mr. John Crown, Mr. John Dryden, Nicholas Rowe (1720). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. IV.”, p.48

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Journey, Hiking, Perfection

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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover, coitus, fasting, drunkenness, and walking.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Passion, Journey, Love Is

  44 Copy quote

• And I walked, I walked through the light air; I moved with the morning.

  Theodore Roethke

  Morning, Journey, Light

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.110, Anchor

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.

  Thomas Traherne

  Moving, Eye, Journey

  6 Copy quote

• When you walking along naturally, you're walking in the harmony of the Unborn.

  Bankei Yotaku

  Journey, Hiking, Harmony

  21 Copy quote

• Good walking leaves no track behind it.

  Laozi

  Journey, Hiking, Track

  Laozi, Jingxiong Wu (1997). “Dao teh jing”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

  Edward Abbey

  Journey, Snakes, Hiking

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Journey, Next Day, Hiking

  Karl Philipp Moritz (1886). “Travels in England in 1782”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  A. R. Ammons

  Journey, Hiking, Numbers

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Management by Walking Around

  David Packard

  Journey, Hiking, Management

  7 Copy quote

• Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive.

  Gary Snyder

  Journey, Order, Ecosystems

  92 Copy quote

• Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

  Diane Ackerman

  Struggle, Journey, Garden

  4 Copy quote

• It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.

  Louis L'Amour

  Journey, Hiking, Offering

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.74, Bantam

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.... What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.395, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had a rule about stilettos, and it was this: I didn't wear them unless I planned to kick ass in them. Stilettos were for striding and sauntering, never sulking.

  Megan Crane

  Sulking, Kick Ass, Stilettos

  4 Copy quote

• Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.

  Bill Bryson

  Journey, Hiking, Benefits

  Bill Bryson (2010). “A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike”, p.167, Random House

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

  Raymond Carver

  Journey, Hiking, Return

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Ultramarine: Poems”, p.12, Vintage

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Journey, Average, Two

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 4, 2004.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Bruce Barton

  Journey, Hiking, Brain

  8 Copy quote

• We must walk before we run.

  George Henry Borrow

  Running, Journey, Hiking

  George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: the scholar--the gypsy--the priest”, p.15

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

  Edward Abbey

  Pain, Heart, Journey

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.49, Macmillan

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Children, Journey, Hiking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself.

  Nanao Sakaki

  Journey, Hiking, Mountain

  10 Copy quote

• Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which you manfully turned the steps of your abandonment ... It is your business to leave all that you have know altogether behind you, and no man has eyes at the back of his head - go forward.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Eye, Journey, Men

  4 Copy quote