The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves. — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole. — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable. — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
“I had a rule about stilettos, and it was this: I didn't wear them unless I planned to kick ass in them.… — Megan Crane Copy Share Image
For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter. — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
… the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and… — Patrick F. McManus Copy Share Image
Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments!… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The best treatment for feet encased in shoes all day is to go barefoot. One-fifth of the world's population never wears shoes… — Stephanie Tourles Copy Share Image
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