Arrivals Quote by Rebecca Solnit

Walking is a meditative act. It's so rare that we allow ourselves just to be.

— Mohsin Hamid

Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world…

— Rebecca Solnit

Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned.

— Rebecca Solnit

Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit…

— Gary Snyder

“Many of us have been unconsciously programmed to treat walking as a means to an end, especially while in the workplace. Naturally, a lack…

— Christopher Dines

Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.

— Rebecca Solnit

[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom.…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

Walking is a way of being somewhere, rather than striving to arrive.

— John Hillaby

To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.

— Michel de Certeau

Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Walking is simple and second nature for most of us. It's an everyday kind of activity, not something that's frequently the rage of fashion…

— Charlie Cook

The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be…

— Rebecca Solnit