Sauntering Quotes - Page 3

• When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Garden, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Essays of Henry David Thoreau - Walking”, p.8, Editora Dracaena

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• If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.

  Wendell Berry

  Journey, Hiking, Where We Come

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

  Wendell Berry

  Journey, Garden, Land

  "The Unsettling of America". Book by Wendell Berry, 1977.

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• We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

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• Walking is a man's best medicine.

  Hippocrates

  Journey, Men, Medicine

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• Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Journey, Hiking, Mind

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• Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Reading, Exercise

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• Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Journey, Hiking, Walking Home

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.3, 谷月社

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Journey, Hiking, Peter

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.1, 谷月社

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• Meandering leads to perfection.

  Laozi

  Journey, Hiking, Perfection

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• It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.

  Annie Dillard

  Journey, Hiking, Might

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.56, Canongate Books

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• Putting facts by the thousands, into the world, the toes take off with an appealing squeak which the thumping heel follows confidentially, the way men greet men. Sometimes walking is just such elated pumping.

  Lyn Hejinian

  Men, Journey, Hiking

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• Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Time, Knowledge, Journey

  Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.8, Wesleyan University Press

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• You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

  Carol Burnett

  Falling In Love, Journey, Order

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• The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Journey, Irritation, Hiking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1030, Library of America

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• I was the world in which I walked.

  Wallace Stevens

  Journey, Hiking, World

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.90, Vintage

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• People need immediate places to refresh, reinvent themselves. Our surroundings built and natural alike, have an immediate and a continuing effect on the way we feel and act, and on our health and intelligence. These places have an impact on our sense of self, our sense of safety, the kind of work we get done, the ways we interact with other people, even our ability to function as citizens in a democracy. In short, the places where we spend our time affect the people we are and can become.

  Tony Hiss

  Journey, Impact, Self

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• The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Song, Italian, Night

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• Our feet are our body's connection to the earth.

  Andrew Weil

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

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• Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Journey, Hiking, Body

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.28, Penguin

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• All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Philosophy, Heart, Journey

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• Long distance hiking is not a vacation, it's too long for that. It's not recreation, too much toil and pain involved. It is, we decide, a way of life, a very simplified Spartan way of living ... life on the move ... heavy packs, sweating brow; they make you appreciate warm sunshine, companionship, cool water. The best way to appreciate these things that are precious and important in life it is take them away.

  Cindy Ross

  Pain, Distance, Live Life

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• [Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Taken, Moving, Journey

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen”, p.3, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Take a walk on the wild side.

  Lou Reed

  Journey, Wild Side, Hiking

  "Walk on the Wild Side" (song) (1972)

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