My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Walk
() a. & n. from Walk, v.
If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not.
Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.
Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of...
But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations.
Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to do...
The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the er...
I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street in ripped stockings and head into some smoky boite and sing for a path...
Only those thoughts which come from walking have any value
Home is everything you can walk to.
The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary...
I want to be so famous that I'm the pop-culture reference that people would make to try and be racist to me. So I'd be walking down the street, and someone would be, like, 'Hey, look at this Kumail Na...
Every step of the walk unburdens us of what we have just seen and thought while it simultaneously thrusts us into the previously unknown.
If you seek creative ideas go walking.Angels whisper to a man when he goes fora walk.
The multiplication of technologies in the name of efficiency is actually eradicating free time by making it possible to maximize the time and place for production and minimize the unstructured travel...
Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy patterns of the shadows across the path. And then myself, walkin...
A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.
I can only meditate when I am walking, when I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.