Sierra Nevada, CA 1984
Rock Creek Basin, Mt. Starr (12,870')
The walker in all photos on this webpage is Mike Garofalo
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"Happiness walks on busy feet."
- Kitte Turmell
"The most soulful places are almost always
reached only on foot."
- The Solitary Walker
"Details of the many walks I made along the
crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and
sunlight."
- Colin Fletcher
"All journeys have secret destinations of
which the traveler is unaware."
- Martin Buber
"We do not go to the green woods and
crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home,
in towns and cities."
- G. W. Sears
"The
essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave
no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. That is why the long path to
perfection is horizontal."
- Philippe Petit
"Aerobic exercise differs from other types of physical activity in that it is typically of longer duration, yet of relatively low intensity. It generally involves rhythmically using the same large muscle group for at least 15 to 20 minutes. Examples of aerobic activities are walking, biking, jogging, rowing, swimming and cross-country skiing. As a rule, you should be able to carry on a short conversation while doing aerobic exercise without gasping for breath.
Besides benefitting the 25 percent of American adults with a fatty liver, there are many more reasons to engage in regular aerobic exercise. Six reasons to get aerobic exercise daily are:
1. Aerobic exercise activates the immune system, reducing susceptibility to colds and flus.
2. Aerobic exercise helps keep arteries clear and strengthens the heart.
3. Aerobic exercise can ease depression, reduce anxiety and promote relaxation.
4. Aerobic exercise keeps muscles strong, which helps maintain mobility with advancing age.
5. Aerobic exercise reduces cognitive decline in older adults.
6. Aerobic exercise enhances stamina and reduces fatigue.
Although running a marathon may not be everybody’s
preference, just about anyone can find a way to include aerobic exercise into
their lifestyle. By partaking in this kind of physical activity, fatty liver
disease can be prevented, steatosis reversed and steatohepatitis progression
halted. As demonstrated by the Cleveland Clinic researchers, long and steady
physical activity officially wins the race toward a leaner, healthier liver."
- Nicole Cutler,
Aerobic Exercise - A Smart Route for Battling a Fatty Liver
"One step at a time is good walking."
- Chinese proverb
"The Peripatetic school was a
school of
philosophy
in
Ancient Greece. Its teachings derived from its founder, the
Greek philosopher,
Aristotle,
and Peripatetic is a name given to his followers. The school originally derived
its name Peripatos from the peripatoi (περίπατοι "colonnades")
of the
Lyceum in
Athens where the members met. A similar Greek word peripatetikos (Greek:
περιπατητικός) refers to the act of
walking, and
as an adjective, "peripatetic" is often used to mean itinerant, wandering,
meandering, or walking about. After Aristotle's death, a legend arose that he
was a "peripatetic" lecturer – that he walked about as he taught – and the
designation Peripatetikos came to replace the original Peripatos.
The school dates from around 335 BC when Aristotle began teaching in the Lyceum.
It was an informal institution whose members conducted philosophical and
scientific inquiries. Aristotle's successors
Theophrastus and
Strato continued the tradition of exploring philosophical and scientific
theories, but after the middle of the 3rd century BC, the school fell into a
decline, and it was not until the
Roman era that there was a revival. The term "Peripatetic" is a
transliteration of the ancient Greek word περιπατητικός peripatêtikos,
which means "of walking" or "given to walking about".[1]
The Peripatetic school was actually known simply as the Peripatos.[2]
Aristotle's school came to be so named because of the peripatoi
("colonnades" or "covered walkways") of the
Lyceum where
the members met.[3]
The legend that the name came from Aristotle's alleged habit of walking while
lecturing may have started with
Hermippus of Smyrna.[4]
Unlike Plato, Aristotle was not a citizen of Athens and so could not own
property; he and his colleagues therefore used the grounds of the Lyceum as a
gathering place, just as it had been used by earlier philosophers such as
Socrates.[5]
Aristotle and his colleagues first began to use the Lyceum in this way in about
335 BC., after Aristotle left
Plato's Academy and Athens and then returned to Athens from his travels
about a dozen years later. Because of the school's association with
the
gymnasium, the school also came to be referred to simply as the Lyceum.
Some modern scholars argue that the school did not become formally
institutionalized until
Theophrastus took it over, at which time there was private property
associated with the school."
- The
Peripatetic School - Wikipedia
"I cannot walk through
the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases
us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."
- Jorge Luis Borges
"Happily the spell is taken off for me
Happily I walk, impervious to pain I walk,
Light within I walk, joyous I walk
... In beauty I walk
With beauty before me I walk
With beauty after me I walk
With beauty above me I walk
With beauty above and about me I walk
It is finished in beauty
It is finished in beauty."
- The Night Chant, Navajo Native American Chant
"Soft footsteps forcing a forward flow
at a pleasant pace, steady, unhurried
through the dispersing darkness at daybreak
my mind moves
cottonwood leaves rattle in the dry wind
roosters crow for Auora to rise
a jackrabbit sprints away to hide
a suspicious dog barks his pride
a red truck on 99 rumbles roaring by
my mind moves
an aching knee slows my pace
my hickory cane taps my pace
Green Tara shows Her Face
my mind moves
I daydream about the beautiful Goddess
revisiting myths about the pilgrim's path
chatting with the invisible society of minds
pondering the bright void.
In a state of Grace,
very grateful."
- Michael P. Garofalo, Quiet Steps to Gratitude
"The walking of passers-by offers a series
of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic
figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning"
phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path."
- Michael de Certeau, Walking in the City
"I will look at the footprints
going in and out of the water
and dream up a small blue good to talk to."
- Gerald Stern, Here I am Walking
X
"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
“If a walker is indeed an
individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't
go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can
no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes
much of the gloss off walking -- one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time
and a court for.”
- Edward Hoagland
"If you want to know if your brain is flabby,
feel your legs."
- Bruce Barton
"For you, as well as I, can open fence
doors and walk across America in your own special way. Then we can all
discover who our neighbors are."
- Robert Sweetgall, Fitness Walking
"If you look for the truth outside
yourself,
It gets farther and farther away.
Today walking alone, I meet it everywhere I step.
It is the same as me, yet I am not it.
Only if you understand it in this way
Will you merge with the way things are."
- Tung-Shan
“Common sense and good nature
will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.”
- William Somerset Maugham
"We must walk before we run."
- George Borrow, Lavengro
"The sum of the whole is this: walk and be
happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not,
as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but,
with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man
knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities
and dissolution by earnest walking,--hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety,
but brisk as boys."
- Charles Dickens
"Walking gets the feet moving, the blood
moving, the mind moving. And movement is life."
- Carrie Latet
"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."
- Henry David Thoreau
"A man's work is nothing
but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three
great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
- Albert Camus
"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."
Trek, Trekking: To draw or haul a load, as oxen. To travel, especially by ox wagon; to go from place to place; to migrate. The act of trekking; a drawing or a traveling; a journey; a migration. To migrate, journey, travel.
“Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator
species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health
of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning
sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of
freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered
bodies.”
- Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
"Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain
path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun."
- Ruth Westheimer
"If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try,
for once, who can foot it farthest."
- John Dryden
"Walking is a man's best medicine."
- Hippocrates
"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 freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while
cares will drop off like falling leaves."
- John Muir
Sierra Nevada, CA 1984
Rock Creek Basin, Mt. Starr (12,870')
The walker in all photos on this webpage is
Mike Garofalo
"All truly great thoughts are conceived by
walking."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"We live in a fast-paced society.
Walking slows us down."
- Robert Sweetgall
"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."
- Leslie Stephen
"Gardening is a long road, with many detours
and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a
question of superior or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are
on at the moment. Getting there, as they say, is not important; the
wandering about in the wilderness or in the olive groves or in the bayous is the
whole point."
- Henry Mitchell, Gardening Is a Long Road, 1998
"I'm the walkingest girl around.
I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding."
- Amy Yasbeck
"Above all do not lose your
desire to walk. Everyday 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. But by
sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill
... if one keeps on walking everything will be alright."
- Soren Kierkegaard.
"It's when you are safe at home that you're
having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were
safe at home."
- Thorton Wilder
“Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long
urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.”
- Paul D. Boyer
“Walking . . . is how the body measures
itself against the earth.”
- Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“The big question is whether
you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.”
- Joseph Campbell
"The Americans never walk.
In winter too cold and in summer too hot."
- J. B. Yeats
"Only those who will risk going too far can
possibly find out how far they can go."
- T. S. Eliot
“I firmly believe that everyone deserves to
live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both."
- Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong
Beauty
"I can only meditate when I am walking.
When I stop, I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
"We shall not cease
from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive at where we started
And know the place for the first time."
- T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
"The best remedy for a short temper is a
long walk."
- Jacqueline Schiff
"Walking is also an
ambulation of mind."
- Gertel Ehrlich
"Never have a path for walking on less than
three feet wide."
- Martin Hoyles
"A vagrant is everywhere at home."
- Martial
"Who will tell whether one
happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and
smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life
implies."
- Eric Fromm
"If you pick 'em up, O Lord, I'll put 'em
down."
- "Prayer of the Tired Walker"
“I would walk along the quais when I had
finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to
think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that
they understood.”
- Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
"A garden should feel like a walk in the
woods."
- Dan Kiley, American landscape designer
"Walking would teach people the quality that
youngsters find so hard to learn - patience."
- Edward P. Weston
“First, if it is true that a spatial order
organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move)
and interdictions (e.g., by a wall that prevents one from going further), than
the walked actualizes some of these possibilities. In that way, he makes them
exist as well as emerge. But he also moves them about and he invents others,
since the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege,
transform, or abandon spatial elements.”
- Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
"I like long walks, especially when they are
taken by people who annoy me."
- Fred Allen
"I only went out for a
walk, and finally concluded to stay out until sundown: for going out, I found,
was really going in."
- John Muir
"Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by
walking."
- Antonio Machado
"You may also want to bring the practice of wogging
into your life. Half slow walking (going uphill) and freely surrendered, speedy jogging (going downhill), it may become your preferred meditation posture or form of dance. The goal of the practice is not to
condition the body aerobically; that happens as a natural byproduct. The goal of the practice is to open to and merge with the breath, letting your natural, surrendered breath determine how fast or slow your body moves, to stay as loose and relaxed as possible, to let every part of the body move as fluidly as possible, to surrender to the sensation and energies of the body as you keep playing with balance, to keep emptying the mind and staying in clear perception of vision and sound.
Full-bodied breath comes easier during a wog than during any other activity.
Sensations can be felt through the entire body. Vision can become very
clear, and the mind can stay very empty."
- Will Johnson, Yoga of the Mahamudra
"Your body is built for walking."
- Gary Yanker
"Give me the strength to walk the soft
earth, a relative to all that is."
- Black Elk
"Thoughts come clearly while one walks."
- Thomas Mann
“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.”
- Henry David Thoreau
"Happy is the man who
has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!"
- W.J.
Holland
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"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
“Returning home is the most difficult part
of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no
longer fits.”
- Cindy Ross
"The rhythm of walking
generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape
echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates
an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that
the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse
it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that
was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making."
- Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust:
A History of Walking
"Walking inspires and promotes conversation
that is grounded in the body, and so it gives the soul a place where it can
thrive. I think I could write an interesting memoir of significant walks I
have taken with others, in which intimacy was not only experienced but set
fondly into the landscape of memory. When I was a child, I used to walk
with my Uncle Tom on his farm, across fields and up and down hills. We
talked of many thing, some informative and some completely outrageous, and quite
a few very tall stories emerged on those bucolic walks. Whatever the
content of the talking, those conversations remain important memories for me of
my attachment to my family, to a remarkable personality, and to nature."
- Thomas Moore, Soul Mates
"Some people like to make a little garden out
of life and walk down a path."
- Jean Anouilh
"Some mountaineers are proud of having done
all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same
applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the
ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the
mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no
restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but
also to go slowly and to contemplate."
- Gaston Rebuffat
"Walking is good for solving problems -
it's like the feet are little psychiatrists."
- Pepper Giardino
"He who limps is still walking."
- Stanislaw J. Lec
"Solvitur ambulando," St.
Jerome was fond of saying. To solve a problem, walk around."
- Gregory McNamee
"It is not talking but walking that will bring
us to heaven."
- Matthew Henry
"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."
- Jamie Luner
"A walk barefoot on the beach or grass
brings the feet into contact with the earth and energies that flow through it,
and provides a revitalizing, energizing, and natural message."
- Inge Dougans, Reflexology
"If I could not walk far and fast, I think
I should just explode and perish."
- Charles Dickens
"To find new things, take the path you took
yesterday."
- John Burroughs
"The modern world is fast, complex,
competitive, and always concerned with what happens next. There is always more
to do than there is time. The landscape and even the light are mostly
artificial. This can be exciting, but all too often it is frustrating,
stressful, and exhausting. In contrast, hiking for weeks or months at a time in
an unspoiled natural environment is a simple, repetitive activity that leads to
calmness and psychological well-being, a feeling of wholeness, of being a
complete person. Each day follows the same pattern, linking in with natural
rhythms–walk in the light, sleep in the dark, eat when hungry, take shelter from
storms. Only the details are different. I get a great pleasure from this
simplicity, from the basic pattern of walk and camp, walk and camp. It is good
to escape the rush of the modern world and for a period of time to live a
quieter, more basic life. Problems and worries subside as the days go by; they
are put into perspective by the elemental activity of putting one foot in front
of the other hour after hour, day after day. And on returning from the wilds,
restored and revitalized by the experience, I find civilization can be much
easier to deal with; indeed, aspects of it can seem very desirable."
- Chris Towsend, The Advanced Backpacker
“A pedestrian is a man in
danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.”
- David McCord
“There may be more to learn from climbing
the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different
mountains.”
- Richard Nelson
“Walking in the morning takes you to
beautiful places where light and shade make love.”
- Mohamed Shareef
“The body's habituation to walking as
normal stems from the good old days. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion:
physical demythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, roofless
wandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right to walk, a
rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. The walk, the stroll,
were private ways of passing time, the heritage of the feudal promenade in the
nineteenth century.”
- Theodor W. Adorno
"Once I dreamt of a form of poetry created
by the sound of feet walking in the grass."
- Cecilia Vicuna
"I like to walk about
among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should
decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my
liberty."
- George Santayana
"Like one that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head,
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Walking is good for solving problems -
it's like the feet are little psychiatrists."
- Pepper Giardino
"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."
- Leslie Stephen
“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we
had not known we were meant to walk.”
- Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
"As you sit on the
hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a
mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens."
- Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping
"If a walker is indeed an individualist there
is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon.
But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no
longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes
much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time
and a court for."
- Edward Hoagland
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the
lake."
- Wallace Stevens
"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full
description of a happy state in this world."
- John Locke
“Don't walk in front of me; I may not
follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my
friend.”
- Albert Camus
"After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk
a mile."
- English Proverb
“He could tell by the way animals walked
that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the song in
their own hearts that they walked to.”
- Laura Adams Armer, Waterless Mountain
"The silence of landscape conceals vast
presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality.
With complete attention, landscape celebrates the liturgy of the seasons, giving
itself unreservedly to the passion of the goddess. The shape of a landscape is
an ancient and silent form of consciousness. Mountains are huge contemplatives.
Rivers and streams offer voice; they are the tears of the earth's joy and
despair. The earth is full of soul ….. Civilization has tamed place. Left to
itself, the curvature of the landscape invites presence and the loyalty of
stillness."
- John O'Donohue, Anam Cara
The Complete Guide to Walking, New and Revised: For Health, Weight Loss, and Fitness
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
by Casey Meyers
The Spirited Walker: Fitness Walking For Clarity, Balance, and Spiritual Connection
“Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly
sin.”
- Bruce Chatwin, What Am I Doing Here?
“Walking shares with making and working
that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of
knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.”
- Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
"Peregrination charms our senses with such
unspeakable and sweet variety that some count him that never traveled--a kind of
prisoner, and pity his case: that, from his cradle to his old age, he beholds
the same still, still, - still, the same, the same."
- Robert Burton
“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.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The place where you lose the trail is not
necessarily the place where it ends."
- Tom Brown, Jr.
"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…"
- Robert Searns
"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."
- Source Unknown
"My father considered a walk among the
mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing."
- Aldous Huxley
“Over every mountain there is a path,
although it may not be seen from the valley.”
- Theodore Roethke
“The soul that sees beauty may
sometimes walk alone.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Life's but a walking
shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is
heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying
nothing."
- William Shakespeare, MacBeth
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there
is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just
as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or
drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off
walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.”
- Edward Hoagland
"Allow walking to occupy a place of stature
equal with all the other important activities in your life. As
difficult as that might seem, here's how to do it. Make it a practice.
That's right. Turn your walking into a vehicle for personal growth as well
as for fitness. This will add a higher level of integrity and intention to
your approach because you will find that it is a way to deepen and upgrade your
relationship to your body. Instead of merely giving your legs and a good
workout, you'll be practicing to relax more, to breathe better, to expand your
vision, to open up your range of motion, to increase your energy, to feel and
sense your body. The list is exciting - and endless. With all of
this to look forward to, your walking program will take its place alongside
everything in your life you value most, and you'll be amazed at how easy it is
to schedule time for something you really love to do."
- Katherine Dreyer, Chi Walking
"Walking around
an
early spring garden--
going nowhere."
- Kyoshi
"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."
- Robert Browne, The Appalachian Trail
"The central
role of walking in Wordsworth's life suggests a number of interesting questions,
but I will focus here only on those related to the theme of this conference,
work and leisure. Obviously, much of Wordsworth's walking
could be classed as leisure-time activity.
There was probably no compelling reason for Wordsworth and Dorothy to
walk twice to the Black Swan or for Wordsworth and Mary to circumambulate the
lakes. Indeed, the reasons given for some of the
walks--mousetrap buying and letter fetching--seem a bit contrived, as if almost
any excuse would do for the sake of a good walk. Yet at the
same time, Wordsworth was a poet adept at picking up poetic materials from those
walks--a beggar, a leech gatherer, a field of flowers.
Moreover, Wordsworth used walking as a compositional device, as he composed and
revised his verses. In other words, for Wordsworth,
walking was also a form of work, both a process for extracting raw materials
from the world and a manufacturing method for shaping or refining those
materials."
- Malcolm Hayward
"Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes
the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so
merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that
mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without
discomfort."
- Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey
“A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream”
"Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached
by some Peter the Hermit in us."
- Henry David Thoreau
"If you are walking to seek, ye shall
find."
- Sommeil Liberosensa
"It has been said that there are
landscapes one can
walk through, landscapes which can be gazed upon,
landscapes in which one may dwell ... Those fit for
walking through or being gazed upon are not equal
to those in which one may dwell or ramble."
- Kuo Hsi
“I learned that the richness of
life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence.
Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.”
- William O. Douglas
“Live with intention. Walk to
the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with
no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as
if this is all there is.”
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"Your possessions should set you free like a
boat or a pair of hiking boots. If you work for your possessions and they
don't set you free, what are you working for?"
- Billy Harris
"You have to go through
the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can
survive it. That's an education in itself."
- Carol Burnett
“To walk is to lack a place. It is the
indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. The moving about
that the city mutliplies and concentrates makes the city itself an immense
social experience of lacking a place -- an experience that is, to be sure,
broken up into countless tiny deportations (displacements and walks),
compensated for by the relationships and intersections of these exoduses that
intertwine and create an urban fabric, and placed under the sign of what ought
to be, ultimately, the place but is only a name, the City...a universe of rented
spaces haunted by a nowhere or by dreamed-of places.”
- Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
"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."
– John
Burroughs
"The contented person enjoys the
scenery of a detour."
"Don't let people drive you crazy when you
know it's in walking distance."
– Authors Unknown
"As a nation we are dedicated to keeping
physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible."
- Bill Vaughan
"A person's heart and mind are in chaos.
Concentration on one thing makes the mind pure.
If one aspires to reach the Tao,
one should practice walking in a circle."
- Taoist Canon
"Me thinks that the moment
my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow."
- Henry David Thoreau
"It's always fun to walk
down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other
than to see how the world reacts to them."
- Jonathan Carroll
“The traveler was active; he
went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist
is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes
"sight-seeing."
- Daniel J. Boorstin
“Before you criticize someone,
you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you
are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”
- Jack Handey
"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only
the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are
going and why."
- Eddie Cantor
“It is impossible to walk
rapidly and be unhappy.”
- Mother Theresa
"I was the world in which I
walked."
- Wallace Stevens, Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
"Do not go where the path may lead, go
instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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."
- Aaron Sussman & Ruth Goode, The Magic of Walking
"If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear shoes
that are too tight."
- The Houghton Line, November 1965
"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."
- Leslie Stephen, The Art of Walking
"It's amazing how much time one can
spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the nicest part of gardening is walking around in a daze, idly deadheading the odd dahlia, wondering where on earth to squeeze in yet another impulse buy, debating whether to move the recalcitrant artemisia
one more time, or daydreaming about where to put the pergola."
- Jane Garmey, A Writer in the Garden
"You need special shoes for hiking - and a
bit of a special soul as well."
- Emme Woodhull-Bäche
"People travel to wonder at the height of
the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet
they pass by themselves without wondering."
- St. Augustine
"And I have been able to
give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in
hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and
pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with
another."
- Hart Crane
"A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the
ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the
mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily."
- Paul Fleischman, Seedfolks
"The night walked down the sky with the
moon in her hand."
- Frederick L. Knowles
"My yesterdays walk with
me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder."
- William Golding
"Some do not walk at all;
others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots."
- Henry David Thoreau, Walking
"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."
- Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild
"I represent what is left of a vanishing
race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a
keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday."
- Will Rogers
“Four times I was honked at for having the
temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.”
- Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the
Appalachian Trail
“Walking is the perfect way of moving if
you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go
to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss
a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.”
- Elizabeth von Arnim, The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen
"People usually consider
walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real
miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.
Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue
sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our
own two eyes. All is a miracle."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
"You cannot travel the path until you have
become the path itself."
- Buddha
"What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked."
- Mark Twain
“.… the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is clear, the step is firm, and a day's exertion always makes the evening's repose thoroughly enjoyable.”
- David Livingstone
"In my afternoon walk I would fain
forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Every morning, like clockwork, he [Wallace
Stevens] used to walk down Terry Road about nine o’clock, just about the time I
was standing by my kitchen sink. I’d always get a thrill. I the afternoon, he’d
walk back, this very slow stride of his. Usually, if it was summer or good
weather, I’d be outdoors with some of the neighbors’ children. I’d make
them stop and look at him, and I’d say, "I want you to remember this is a great
poet."
- Florence Berkman
"Now shall I walk
or shall I ride?
"Ride," Pleasure said:
"Walk," Joy replied."
- W.H. Davies
“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.”
- G. M. Trevelyan
“Our wretched species is so
made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those
who are showing a new road”
- Voltaire
"The best remedy for a short temper is a
long walk."
- Jacqueline Schiff
"Walks: The body advances,
while the mind flutters around it like a bird."
- Jules Renard
"Our true home is in the present moment.
To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on
water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
"The trail has taught me much. I know now
the varied voices of the coyote – the wizard of the mesa. I know the solemn call
of herons and the mocking cry of the loon. I remember a hundred lovely lakes,
and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees.
The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and
saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and
the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the
primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins
my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear a
coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy."
- Hamlin Garland, 1899
"Thus, that one can find
no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is
not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally
with words."
- Xun Zi
“It seems thus possible to give a
preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.”
- Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
“One kind of walking which I do not recall
seeing mentioned anywhere in the literature of the subject is imaginary
walking.”
- Edwin V Mitchell, The Pleasures Of Walking
“The stones were sharp,
The wind came at my back;
Walking along the highway,
Mincing like a cat.”
- Theodore Roethke
"Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the
path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other."
- M. C. Richards
“A path is a prior interpretation of the
best way to traverse a landscape.”
- Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“The heights charm us, but the
steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I have two doctors, my left leg and my right."
- G. M. Trevelyan
Here is my walking path. It is a .35 mile, asphalt paved, cul-de-sac, Kilkenny Lane, in Red Bluff, California. Kilkenny Lane moves in an east-west direction from the front of my home to Highway 99 West. I practice Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong in the circular area in front of my house shown the foreground of this picture. I rarely encounter a car on Kilkenny Lane. Six laps back and forth provide me with 3.6 miles of walking.
"All walking is discovery. On foot we
take the time to see things whole."
- Hal Borland
"There’s all sorts of walking—from heading out across
the desert in a straight line to a sinuous weaving through undergrowth.
Descending rocky ridges and talus slopes is a specialty in itself. It is an
irregular dancing—always shifting—step of walk on slabs and scree. The breath
and eye are always following this uneven rhythm. It is never paced or clocklike,
but flexing—little jumps—sidestep—going for the well-seen place to put a foot on
a rock, hit flat, move on—zigzagging along and all deliberate. The alert eye
looking ahead, picking the footholds to come, while never missing the step of
the moment. The body-mind is so at one with this rough world that it makes these
moves effortlessly once it has had a bit of practice. The mountain keeps up with
the mountain … The landscape can become both ritual and meditation."
- Gary Snyder
"It is good to collect things; it is better to
take walks."
- Anatole France
Spirituality
Quotes for Gardeners
and Lovers of the Green Way
"Before supper take a little walk, after supper
do the same."
- Erasmus
"It is good to have an end to journey
towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."
- Ursula K. LeGui
"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."
"Why are there trees I never walk under
but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?"
- Walt Whitman
“One does not sell the earth
upon which the people walk.”
- Crazy Horse
"Walking gets the feet moving, the blood
moving, the mind moving. And movement is life."
- Carrie Latet
“When the path ignites a soul,
there's no remaining in place.
The foot touches ground,
but not for long.”
- Hakim Sanai
"The pleasure of risk is in the control
needed to ride it with assurance so that what appears dangerous to the outsider
is, to the participant, simply a matter of intelligence, skill, intuition,
coordination... in a word, experience. Climbing in particular, is a
paradoxically intellectual pastime, but with this difference: you have to think
with your body. Every move has to be worked out in terms of playing chess with
your body. If I make a mistake the consequences are immediate, obvious,
embarrassing, and possibly painful. For a brief period I am directly responsible
for my actions. In that beautiful, silent, world of mountains, it seems to me
worth a little risk."
- A. Alvarez, The Games Climbers Play
"When one walks, one is brought into touch
first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the
character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do.
Then every man one meets is an individual."
- Aleister Crowley
"Each fresh peak ascended teaches
something."
- Sir Martin Convay
“Today is one of those excellent January
partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to
trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you’re alive.
You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet’s roundness arc between your
feet.”
- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“A by product of the circulation of
commodities, human circulation considered as a form of consumption, tourism
comes down fundamentally to the freedom to go and see what has become banal. The
economic planning of the frequenting of different places is already in itself
the guarantee of their equivalence. The same modernization that has withdrawn
the element of time from journeying, has also withdrawn the reality of space.”
- Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City
"It is solved by walking -
Solvitur ambulando."
- A Latin proverb,
attributed to Saint Augustine and St. Jerome
"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."
- Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons
"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."
- Stephanie Tourles, Natural Foot Care
"I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my
shoes, my rage, forgetting everything."
- Pablo Neruda
"In a city where you
walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will
happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns."
- Jason Schwartzman
"The world belongs to
the energetic."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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."
- Katherine Hepburn
"Walking - the most ancient exercise and
still the best modern exercise."
- Carrie Latet
"Has modern society lost a measure of its
spiritual awareness because we take so little time to walk? In not allowing
ourselves time to slow down, to be close to the earth around us, have we become
impervious to a God who chooses to reveal Himself through His creation?”
- Amy Litzelman
"Take a two-mile walk every
morning before breakfast."
- Harry Truman
"Make the commitment
to gradually improve both your exercise performance and your eating habits.
Take your time, what's the hurry? View it as a journey to improve
yourself. Although this is difficult, focus on the journey, not the end
result."
- Bob Greene
“Should I go up one flight of stairs and
then come back down, or should I go down one flight of stairs and then come back
up? Same destination, same distance, same amount of work, but two different
paths. Who knows, I might find love on one path. Probably the path I don’t
choose.”
- Jarod Kintz
"In the inhalation and
exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his
spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the
earth and spirit to those who walk on it."
- Michael Servetus
“The subject of walking is, in some sense,
about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or
breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the
erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.”
- Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can
and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
- Siddhārtha Gautama, Sayings Of Buddha
"As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone
under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the
great door, that does not look like a door, opens."
- Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping
“It occurred to me, not exactly for the
first time, that psychogeography didn't have much to do with the actual
experience of walking. It was a nice idea, a clever idea, an art project, a
conceit, but it had very little to do with any real walking, with any real
experience of walking. And it confirmed for me what I'd really known all along,
that walking isn't much good as a theoretical experience. You can dress it up
any way you like, but walking remains resolutely simple, basic, analog. That's
why I love it and love doing it. And in that respect--stay with me on this--it's
not entirely unlike a martini. Sure you can add things to martinis, like
chocolate or an olive stuffed with blue cheese or, God forbid, cotton candy, and
similarly you can add things to your walks--constraints, shapes, notions of the
mapping of utopian spaces--but you don't need to. And really, why would you? Why
spoil a good drink? Why spoil a good walk?”
- Geoff Nicholson, The Lost Art of Walking
“When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think,
when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's
just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something
comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.”
- Jim Butcher, Storm Front
"What is it that makes it so hard sometimes
to determine whither we will walk? I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in
Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not
indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very
liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take
that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly
symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world;
and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because
it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea."
- Henry David Thoreau
“Hiking alone lets me have some time to
myself.”
- Jamie Luner
"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."
- John Kabat-Zinn
"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, Walking
"Once you find you can't
walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated."
- Robert Sheckley
“It's one thing to feel that you are on the
right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path.”
- Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
"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."
- Richard Frazine, The Barefoot Hiker
"The true charm of
pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the
talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to
keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy
smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and
solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk."
- Mark Twain
"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 that is meditation! We are
not only in touch, at that moment, with the physical splendor of
nature, but also with the beauty of merging our own spiritual nature with it."
- Karen
Zebroff
North Dome, Yosemite National Park, CA, 2006
“May you always walk in
sunshine.
May you never want for more.
May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.”
- Irish Blessing
"We should go forth on the shortest walk,
perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our
embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms."
- Henry David Thoreau
"I can walk down the
street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me."
- Scott Speedman
"Walking is the number one exercise for
your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal."
- Stephanie Tourles, Natural Foot Care
“We are happy to observe an increasing
frequency of these pedestrian tours: to walk, is, beyond all comparison, the
most independent and advantageous mode of travelling; Smelfungus and Mundungus
may pursue their journey as they please; but it grieves one to see a man of
taste at the mercy of a postilion. For the 'man of taste' to be actively
recommended the pedestrian alternative indeed shows that a decisive reversal of
educated attitudes has taken place, and within a relatively narrow span of
years.”
- Robin Jarvis, Romantic Writing And Pedestrian Travel
"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."
- Cindy Ross, Journey on the Crest
“What you're missing is that the path
itself changes you.”
― Julien Smith, The Flinch
"Part of the challenge in
taking up Zen training is appreciating that formal study is focused and
dedicated, but also in a certain sense contrived. Each step in kinhin is a
wondrous linking of breath and mind and sangha and self, and is
obviously also walking in circles really slowly in a cramped room. It’s a
device, and it’s mysteriously right. It’s very ordinary, and it’s
as extraordinary as the universe itself."
- Bonnie Myotai Treace,
Moonlit
Window
“I was the world in which I walked.”
- Wallace Stevens
"'Walking' [by H.D. Thoreau] is a lyrical,
meandering essay on the
value of sauntering and on the preservation of what is wild in the world. It is
an amazing, impassioned work, especially considering it was published well
before the automobile came to define the limits of our experience of place. It
is a call to participation in the world, for living among that which is
untamed."
- Zane Parker
"No problem is so
formidable that you can't walk away from it."
- Charles M. Schulz
“I see a vision of a great rucksack
revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with
rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men
glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics
who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason
and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions
of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.”
- Jack Kerouac
"If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of
exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern
times nothing else can approach, it also presents great dangers. It is not the
goal of grand alpinism to face peril, but it is one of the tests one must
undergo to deserve the joy of rising for an instant above the state of crawling
grubs. But soon we have to start the descent. Suddenly I feel sad and
despondent. I am well aware that a mountaineering victory is only a scratch in
space But in spite of this, how sad I feel at leaving that crest ! On this proud
and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting
nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been
men. It is hard to return to servitude."
- Lionel Terray
"The American people
never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine."
- Alfred E. Smith
"People are different on a path. On a town
sidewalk strangers may make eye contact, but that’s all. On a path like this
they smile, say hello, and pet one another’s dogs. I think every community in
American should have a greenway."
- Anne Lusk
“Walk some night on a suburban street and
pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight
of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the
television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show;
nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on
human feet instead of wheels.”
- Geoff Nicholson, The Lost Art of Walking
"What really helps motivate me to walk are
my dogs, who are my best pals. They keep you honest about walking because
when it's time to go, you can't disappoint those little faces."
- Wendie Malick
“The experienced mountain climber is not
intimidated by a mountain — he is inspired by it.”
- William Arthur Ward
"Remember that on average, every minute you
are walking can extend your life by 1.5 to 2 minutes!"
- Deborah Crawford
"Many of the Anglican meditation manuals
used by Druids in the early years of the Revival gave special instructions for
meditating while walking in a garden or some other quiet area. To meditate
while walking, choose a route over level ground where you won't have to bend,
climb stairs, duck around trees, or do anything else that will interrupt your
thoughts. A paved or gravel path in a garden is ideal. It
should lead in a circle, so that you can keep walking as long as necessary.
Walk slowly and smoothly, taking relatively small steps at a steady rhythm.
As with the seated posture, you spine should be straight without being stiff,
the crown of your head level, and your eyes lowered. Let your arms move
easily and naturally at your sides."
- John Michael Greer, The Druidry Handbook: Spiritual Practice Rooted in
the Living Earth
“On the path that leads to Nowhere I have
sometimes found my soul!”
- Corine Roosevelt Robinson
“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.”
- John R. Stilgoe
They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich
indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of
articulating a second, poetic geography on top of the geography of the literal,
forbidden or permitted meaning. They insinuate other routes into the
functionalist and historical order of movement. Walking follows them: 'I fill
this great empty space with a beautiful name.”
- Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
"I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential
chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district
without setting foot on its highest peak."
- Sir Leslie Stephen
"Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though I've often passed them by,
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
“The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before
his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains
were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be
interpreted as an alleory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest
to a destination one is also the farthest).”
- Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“You never know what's around the corner. It could be
everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the
other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.”
- Tom Hiddleston
A Brief Biography of Michael P. Garofalo
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