Walking: Bibliography, Links, Resources, Quotes, Notes
Walking: Quotes, Poems, Songs, Sayings
Walking Meditation: Bibliography, Links, Quotes, Resources, Techniques
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a
country. A fine landscape is like
a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast.
- Paul Scott Mowrer
I have two doctors, my left leg and
my right.
- G. M. Trevelyan
Death Valley, California
Mike Garofalo, Hiker
In every walk with nature one
receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
It is not talking but walking that
will bring us to heaven.
- Matthew Henry
If you want to know if your
brain is flabby, feel your legs.
- Bruce Barton
Thirteen Treasures Walking Qigong
If you look for the truth outside
yourself,
It gets farther and farther away.
Today walking alone, I meet it everywhere I step.
It is the same as me, yet I am not it.
Only if you understand it in this way
Will you merge with the way things are.
- Tung-Shan
Our way is not soft grass,
it's a mountain path with lots of rocks.
But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun.
- Ruth Westheimer
Climb the mountains and get their
good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into
you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their freshness into you,
and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like falling leaves.
- John Muir
All truly great
thoughts are conceived by walking.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Trees
Quotes for Gardeners and
Lovers of the Green Way
The longest journey begins with a
single step.
- Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
Gardening is a long road, with many
detours and way stations, and here we all
are at one point or another. It's not a question of superior or inferior taste,
merely
a question of which detour we are on at the moment. Getting there (as they say)
is not important; the wandering about in the wilderness or in the olive groves
or in the bayous is the whole point.
- Henry Mitchell, Gardening Is a Long Road, 1998
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
- Karle Wilson Baker
If you are seeking creative ideas, go
out walking.
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
- Raymond Inmon
It's when you are safe at home that
you're having an adventure.
When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
- Thorton Wilder
We shall not cease
from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive at where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
Meandering leads to perfection.
- Lao Tzu
Never have a path for walking on less
than three feet wide.
- Martin Hoyles
A garden should feel like a walk in
the woods.
- Dan Kiley, American landscape designer
Walking would teach people
the quality that youngsters
find so hard to learn - patience.
- Edward P. Weston
I like long walks, especially when
they are taken
by people who annoy me.
- Fred Allen
Walking - Bibliography, Links, Referneces, Resources
Today I have grown
taller from walking with the trees.
- Karle Wilson Baker
Travelers, there is no path, paths
are made by walking.
- Antonio Machado
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
- Robert Frost, Two Roads
Happy is the
man who has acquired
the love of walking for its own sake!
- W.J.
Holland
Some people like to make a little
garden out of life
and walk down a path.
- Jean Anouilh
Simplicity
Quotes for Gardeners
and Lovers of the Green Way
He who limps is still walking.
- Stanislaw J. Lec
Seeing
Quotes for Gardeners and
Lovers of the Green Way
It is not talking but walking that
will bring us to heaven.
- Matthew Henry
To find new things, take the path you
took yesterday.
- John Burroughs
Like one that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head,
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As you sit on the
hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest,
or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door,
that does not look like a door, opens.
- Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping
If a walker is indeed an
individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not
many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live
alongside
a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer
areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't
have to reserve a time and a court for."
- Edward Hoagland
Healthy
Living
Quotes for Gardeners and
Lovers of the Green Way
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk
around the lake.
- Wallace Stevens
Singing the same song
at a different tone,
In thoughts, destined to die, unknown.
Born unto a world not of our own,
We walked together, walking alone.
- Michael R. Anderson, Walking
Alone
The place where you lose the trail is
not
necessarily the place where it ends.
- Tom Brown, Jr.
It is a great
art to saunter.
- Henry David Thoreau,
1841
My father considered a walk among the
mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- Aldous Huxley
Of all exercises walking is the
best.
- Thomas Jefferson
Walking around
an
early spring garden--
going nowhere.
- Kyoshi
I travel not to go anywhere, but to
go.
- Robert L. Stevenson
The thorn tree just began to
bud
And greening stained the sheltering hedge,
An many a violet beside the wood
Peeped blue between the withered sedge;
The sun gleamed warm the bank beside,
'Twas pleasant wandering out a while
Neath nestling bush to lonely hide,
Or bend a musings o'er a stile.
- John Clare, 1840
It has been said that there are
landscapes one can
walk through, landscapes which can be gazed upon,
landscapes in which one may dwell... Those fit for
walking through or being gazed upon are not equal
to those in which one may dwell or ramble.
- Kuo Hsi
Don't think you're on the right road
just because it’s a well-beaten path.
- Author Unknown
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water
exhilarating;
to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be
thrilled by the
stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a
wildflower in spring — these
are some of the rewards of the simple life.
– John
Burroughs
The contented person enjoys the
scenery of a detour.
– Author Unknown
Everywhere is walking distance if you
have the time.
- Steven Wright
Slow down and enjoy life. It's
not only the scenery you miss by going to
fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
- Eddie Cantor
Seasons
Quotes for Gardeners and
Lovers of the Green Way
To know the road ahead, ask those
coming back.
Chinese Proverb
I was the world in
which I walked.
- Wallace Stevens, Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
Farewell we call to hearth and hall!
Though wind may blow and rain may fall.
We must away ere the break of day.
Far over wood and mountain tall.
- J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
It's amazing how much time one can
spend in a garden doing
nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the nicest part
of gardening is walking around in a daze, idly deadheading
the odd dahlia, wondering where on earth to squeeze in yet
another impulse buy, debating whether to move the
recalcitrant artemisia one more time, or daydreaming
about where to put the pergola.
- Jane Garmey, A Writer in the Garden
A fact bobbed up from my memory, that
the ancient Egyptians
prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.
It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.
- Paul Fleischman, Seedfolks
Walking - Quotes, Poems, Sayings, Wisdom
Good walking leaves no track behind
it.
- Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
Some do not walk at all; others walk in the
highways;
a few walk across lots.
- Henry David Thoreau, Walking
Walking is the great
adventure, the first meditation,
a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind.
Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.
- Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle.
But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin
air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle
which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green
leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes.
All is a miracle.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I like long walks, especially when
they are taken by people who annoy me.
- Chris Howell
Our true home is in the present
moment. To live in the present
moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The
miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment…
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Sierra Nevada, California
Rock Creek Basin, Mt. Starr (12,870')
Mike Garofalo, Hiker
The more zigzag the way, the deeper
the scenery.
The winding path approaches the secluded and peaceful place.
- Huang Binhong
Let no one be deluded that a
knowledge of the path can
substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
- M. C. Richards
All paths lead nowhere, so it is
important
to choose a path that has heart.
- Carlos Castenda
All walking is discovery. On
foot we take
the time to see things whole.
- Hal Borland
It is good to collect things; it
is better to take walks.
- Anatole France
Spirituality
Quotes for Gardeners
and Lovers of the Green Way
Before supper take a little
walk,
after supper do the same.
- Erasmus
It
is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. LeGuin
A vigorous five-mile walk will do
more good for an
unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the
medicine and psychology in the world.
- Paul Dudley White
When one walks, one is
brought into touch first of all with the essential
relations
between one's physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled
to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual.
- Aleister Crowley
It is solved by
walking.
- A Latin proverb
It takes days
of practice to learn the art of sauntering.
Commonly we stride through the out-of-doors too swiftly
to see more than the most obvious and prominent things.
For observing nature, the best pace is a snail’s pace.
- Edwin Way
Teale, Circle of the Seasons
Walking
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