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We walk too little in today’s modern world

• The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average, the total walking of an American these days – that’s walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls – adds up to 1.4 miles a week…That’s ridiculous. Bill Bryson
• People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that’s the problem.  Chris Adams
• Hiking,  Exercise

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Walking is a wonderful gift

• In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir
• After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value. George Macauley Trevelyan
• Now shall I walk or shall I ride? “Ride,” Pleasure said. “Walk,” Joy replied.  H. Davies

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Walking is the best exercise

• 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
• The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. Thomas Jefferson
• Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise.  Carrie Latet
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Walking is great for your health…

• 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
• No matter what kind of shape you are in, I recommend beginning your restorative exercise with walking. If you have been overexercising, you need to slow down. And if you have not been exercising, walking is the appropriate way to speed up. Frank Lipman, M.D.
• If you’re in good shape, you can incorporate short bursts of jogging into these brisk walks. Walk or jog briskly for a minute, then slow down for three. Frank Lipman, M.D.
• Make your feet your friend. J.M. Barrie
• I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least – and it is commonly more than that – sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements. Henry David Thoreau
• 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… you have worn out.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. M. Trevelyan
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… including your mental health

• Just walk for around forty minutes a day to enjoy the best happiness boost possible. You’ll not only benefit from serotonin, melatonin and adrenaline increases, you’ll also boost oxygen levels in your brain, thereby increasing focus and short-term memory. Karl Moore
• 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
• The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. Jacqueline Schiff
• If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. Charles Dickens
• 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

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Our bodies are meant for walking

• Your body is built for walking. Gary Yanker
• 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
• Because walking became essential to our survival as we evolved from our ape ancestors into our present upright form, our bodies have developed in such a way that walking is integral to our health. Hundreds of calorie-burning muscles come into play—not only muscles you’d expect, such as leg and arm muscles, but also internal muscles such as the psoas. The psoas is one of the body’s major core muscles that is shortened by sitting and is lengthened and strengthened by the movement of walking. A daily walk burns calories, increases metabolic activity, helps counteract postural imbalances, and massages your internal organs. It also strengthens the abdominal walls and improves your breathing. Moreover, walking outdoors on uneven terrain is even better for you. It stimulates varied movement patterns, improving balance and coordination. Frank Lipman, M.D.

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Walking is a great way to think clearly …

• Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. Henry David Thoreau
• Thoughts come clearly while one walks. Thomas Mann
• Although I have a regular work schedule, I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. Albert Einstein
• Walking is also an ambulation of mind. Gretel Ehrlich
• The simple act of walking can be a tremendous boost to your focus, productivity, clarity of mind, not to mention your health and waistline. Leo Babauta
• Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.   Wallace Stevens
• It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
• The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird. Jules Renard
• Walking is the natural recreation for a person who desires not absolutely to suppress his or her intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. Leslie Stephen
• 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
• 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. This 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
• 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
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… to get creative ideas …

• All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. Friedrich Nietzsche
• If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. Raymond Inmon
• The most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking. Julia Cameron
• The legs are the wheels of creativity. Albert Einstein
• Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. K. Rowling
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… and to solve problems

• Solvitur ambulando. It is all solved by walking. Latin Proverb
• To solve a problem, walk around. Gregory McNamee
• Walking is good for solving problems — it’s like the feet are little psychiatrists. Terri Guillemets
• Solvitur ambulando, St. Jerome was fond of saying. To solve a problem, walk around.  Gregory McNamee
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A walk can be good for the soul

• Walking is an ancient meditation posture.
• My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. Aldous Huxley
• An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. Henry David Thoreau
• It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person – beguiled, enchanted. Mary Ellen Chase
• 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
• 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
• Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.  Thich Nhat Hanh
• The best, the most exquisite automobile is a walking stick; and one of the finest things in life is going on a journey with it. Robert Coates
• Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.  Anatole France
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Walking is the best way to get a feel for a place

• There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo.  Even a bicycle goes too fast.  Paul Scott Mowrer

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Slow down through walking

• We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down. Robert Sweetgall
• When your schedule is out of hand, it’s a signal that it’s time to slow down and re-evaluate what’s important rather than power through everything on the list. When you’re feeling out of control, rather than roll up your sleeves and “get to it,” a better strategy is to relax, take a few deep breaths and go for a short walk. Richard Carlson
• 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 would teach people the quality that youngsters find so hard to learn – patience. Edward P. Weston
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Turn your walking into a mindful meditation

• Walking is an ancient meditation posture.
• 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
• You can make the focus of your concentration ‘wide-angle’— that is, all the sensations you experience while you walk. Alternatively, you can ‘zoom’ your focus very specifically on the sensations of your feet touching the ground. Just as with breathing, the more you focus, the more detail you become aware of. David Michie
• The difference between walking as a form of meditation and just regular walking is that you are not trying to get anywhere. Instead it is about being fully there with every step.
• Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Mindfully experience your foot, the ground and the connection between your foot and the ground. Thich Nhat Hanh
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Make your feet your friend

• Make your feet your friend. M. Barrie
• Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. Thich Nhat Hahn

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Walk at any time of day

• In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. Henry David Thoreau
• Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. K. Rowling
• After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. English Proverb

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Walk with a friend

• The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared. C. S. Lewis
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Don’t be scared of a little rain

• I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain – and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. Robert Frost
• A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.  Rachel Carson
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A dog is a wonderful motivator to go walking

• A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk. A. Battista
• Ever wonder where you’d end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash? Robert Brault
• 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
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• Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humour, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I haven’t got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers.  If you walk hard enough, you probably don’t need any other god.  Bruce Chatwin
• But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations. Gwyn Thomas
• There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot. Wendell Berry
• Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth. Rebecca Solnit
• 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
• Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors… disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between those interiors in the same way one occupies those interiors. One lives in the whole world rather than in interiors built up against it. Rebecca Solnit
• Meandering leads to perfection. Lao Tzu
• 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

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• Walking isn’t a lost art – one must, by some means, get to the garage. Evan Esar
• My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is. Ellen DeGeneres
• Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. Steven Wright
• Ever wonder where you’d end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash? Robert Brault
• I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me. Noël Coward
• Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone.
• Dog : An intelligent four footed animal who walks around with some dope on the end of a leash.
• Golf is a good walk, spoiled. Mark Twain
• Golf : A lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.
• Hiking is just walking where it’s ok to pee.  Demetri Martin
• If aliens saw us walking our dogs and picking up their poop, who would they think is in charge?
• Narcissism is walking down Lover’s Lane and holding your own hand.  Fred Allen
• Never laugh at a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes; then you are a mile away and you have his shoes.  Jack Handey
• Skiing: Woosh!  Then walk a mile.
• Until you walk a mile in another man’s moccasins you can’t imagine the smell.  Robert Byrne
• The last time I saw him he was walking down lover’s lane holding his own hand. Fred A. Allen
• The other day when I was walking through the woods I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.  Steven Wright
• Walking: A means of transport to the garage.
• We spend the first 12 months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up. Phyllis Diller
• We got new advice as to what motivated man to walk upright to free his hands for masturbation.   Jane Wagner