Walking

I love walking. Ever since I was a kid, I always walked a lot, usually with my dad. We went "zagorod" and walked for miles. As I grew up, taking a walk was a way for me to meditate, to take my mind off things, to clear my head. It's my exercise since I don't run and more often than not it's my salvation. People don't understand it and I have often been yelled at for "walking around" but I love it and here are some thoughts on the topic:

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. -Raymond Inmon

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

Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. -Henry David
Thoreau

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk. -Mark Twain

Thoughts come clearly while one walks. -Thomas Mann

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. -Soren Kierkegaard

People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem. -Chris Adams

How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk. -Author unknown, from New York Times editorial, "The Walk," 25 October 1967

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. -Jacqueline Schiff

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. -Edward Abbey, "Walking"

It might be genetic, since my dad has walked his whole life and my grandma to, while she was able to. Whether it is or not, give me a pair of comfortable shoes, a friendly companion, a telephone or just my own thoughts and I will walk and walk. To the train and from, during lunch and to a sample sale across town.