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  • On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.

    Song: The Year Of The Cat
  • Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

  • It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Thoreau”, p.21, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of expressing it, to make a great deal of the character. To speak and act as in common life is not playing, nor is it what people come to see; natural speaking, like sweet wine, runs glibly over the palate and scarcely leaves any taste behind it; but being high in a part resembles vinegar, which grates upon the taste, and one feels it while he is drinking.

    Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc”, p.233
  • Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.

    Journey   Hiking   Space  
    Colin Fletcher (2014). “The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher”, p.105, Vintage
  • Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.

    War   Party   Spy  
  • Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.

    Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.146, Knopf
  • The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.

    Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.11, Penguin
  • It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

    Journey   Hiking   Space  
    "The Practice of Everyday Life".
  • Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

    Horse   Food   Garden  
  • The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.

    Journey   Hiking   Doubt  
    Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.65, BoD – Books on Demand
  • I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.

  • The path up and down is one and the same.

    Journey   Hiking   Path  
    c.500 BC Quoted in Kirk, Raven and Schofield (eds) The Presocratic Philosophers (1957), ch.6.
  • Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

    Journey   Hiking   Body  
    Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.28, Penguin
  • It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

    Pain   Heart   Journey  
    Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.49, Macmillan
  • I was the world in which I walked.

    Journey   Hiking   World  
    Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.90, Vintage
  • We must walk before we run.

    George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: the scholar--the gypsy--the priest”, p.15
  • I like walking on the edge.

  • If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.

    Journey   Hiking   Brain  
  • Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort.

    Running   Journey   Air  
    Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.16, Vintage
  • A vagrant is everywhere at home.

    Home   Journey   Hiking  
  • We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

    'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 15
  • Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home?

    Nice   Home   Journey  
  • Take a walk on the wild side.

    "Walk on the Wild Side" (song) (1972)
  • You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

  • For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness.

  • Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

  • Frankly, I have no sex appeal. Just strolling in Los Angeles, London, or Paris, you will find a bunch of young guys like me. I am not James Dean.

    Sex   Paris   Guy  
  • The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.

    Home   Journey   Men  
  • I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

    Ernest Hemingway (2009). “A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.51, Simon and Schuster
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