Famous people talking about walking and shoes
It is amazing how much we take walking for granted. Walking upright is one of the most obvious traits that separates human beings from the rest of the animal kingdom. But, that puts humans on only 2 feet, instad of 4, or even more if we're talking about insects. So, naturally, it should be something that has been talked about over the ages. We think it is important too, which is why we are in the business of providing the World's Most Comfortable Shoes!
Quotes:
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. - Friedrich Nietzsche
If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. - Raymond Inmon
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. - Fred Allen
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. - Karle Wilson Baker
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
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
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, Seedfol
I was the world in which I walked.
- Wallace Stevens, Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
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
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
- Steven Wright
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 bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
– John Burroughs
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- Aldous Huxley
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb
Of all exercises walking is the best.
- Thomas Jefferson
Don't think you're on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path.
- Author Unknown
The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.
- Tom Brown, Jr.
Good walking leaves no track behind it. - Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
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
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 Casteada
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
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
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. - G. M. Trevelyan
If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs. - Bruce Barton
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