Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption. — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
I do crunches to keep those abs going strong and flat. I'm not a sedentary person. — Susan Lucci Copy Share Image
True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
All sedentary workers ... suffer from the itch, are a bad colour, and in poor condition ... for when the body is… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
Studies have shown that people who are physically active sleep better than those who are sedentary. The more energy you expend during… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
“Warning: Before beginning an program of physical inactivity, consult your doctor. Sedentary living is abnormal and dangerous to your health.” — FRANK FORENCICH Copy Share Image
Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I loathe the kind of game-show context in which so much of our lives is determined: proving my memory and mental skills… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life,… — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
I have always been physically active. I grew up a tomboy and [was] into sports, so staying active is something that I… — Tricia Helfer Copy Share Image
...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
“This was the common criminal pursuit of all contemporary humankind. Give my child an Ikea desk and twelve hours a day of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Paper after paper, study after study, have shown that chairs give us back problems because they shorten our hip flexors, give us… — Daniel Lieberman Copy Share Image
“Except for professional athletes, dancers, cowboys, and a few other groups, most people in modern industrial societies have abnormally low energy expenditures.… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
What if you can't do what you once did, like run and jump up and down? You can walk, which is also… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much as possible, work and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The contemporary sedentary is someone who feels at home everywhere, thanks to cellphones, and the nomad is someone who does not feel… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Most sponges in the ocean are sedentary: They attach themselves to a rock and sit and filter-feed the rest of their lives… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
![“I have always been physically active. I grew up a tomboy and [was] into sports, so staying active is something that I enjoy. I get antsy and annoyed if I am sedentary too long. I mix up exercise - yoga, Pilates, hiking, running, and weights. I also eat well. I do not eat meat or poultry - have not…” quote by Tricia Helfer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/75c/tricia-helfer-13510_active_i-have-always-been-physically-active-i-g_379983.jpg)
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