Strolling Quotes · Page 2

Of all exercises, walking is the best.

— Thomas Jefferson

To live in the present moment is a miracle.

— Nhat Hanh

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.

— Sheridan Anderson

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A vagrant is everywhere at home.

— Martial

Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

— Rebecca Solnit

Exercise thy lasting youth defends.

— John Gay

I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk…

— Gerald Stern

Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.

— Henry David Thoreau

The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

— Theodore Roethke

I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything.

— Pablo Neruda

“If the path you are walking today won't lead you to your desired destination, then you are STROLLING”

— Fela Durotoye

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.

— Seneca the Elder

It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

— Michel de Certeau

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

— Wendell Berry

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to…

— Leslie Stephen

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no…

— William Shakespeare

It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be…

— Horace Kephart

To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs…

— Thomas Traherne

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance…

— William Henry Ashley

Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What…

— Rick Bass

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

Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks…

— Jack Kerouac

For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from…

— Bob Marshall

Long distance hiking is not a vacation, it's too long for that. It's not recreation, too much toil and pain involved. It…

— Cindy Ross

Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the…

— Hilaire Belloc

A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, "You…

— Wolfgang Pauli

Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights…

— Tony Hiss

When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking…

— Robert Fulghum

It's amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the…

— Jane Garmey

To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened…

— Georges Bataille

In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether…

— Cecelia Ahern

Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their…

— Gary Snyder

There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of…

— Oliver Goldsmith

In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn…

— Thomas Gray

Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to…

— Alfred Kazin

Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane,…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

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