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Walking QUOTES

Walking QUOTES

1 " Wildness is the preservation of the World. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

2 " Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the Sun goes down. He appears to migrate westward daily and tempt us to follow him. He is the Great Western Pioneer whom the nations follow. We dream all night of those mountain ridges in the horizon, though they may be of vapor only, which were last gilded by his rays. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

3 " Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man -- a sort of breeding in and in, which produces at most a merely English nobility, a civilization destined to have a speedy limit. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

4 " I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

5 " What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance? "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

6 " Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all? "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

7 " There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

8 " To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

9 " ‎I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their original wild habits and vigor; as when my neighbor's cow breaks out of her pasture early in the Spring and boldly swims the river, a cold grey tide, twenty-five or thirty rods wide, swollen by the melted snow. It is the Buffalo crossing the Mississippi. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

10 " I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

11 " I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least—and it is commonly more than that—sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements. You may safely say, A penny for your thoughts, or a thousand pounds. When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all the forenoon, but all the afternoon too, sitting with crossed legs, so many of them—as if the legs were made to sit upon, and not to stand or walk upon—I think that they deserve some credit for not having all committed suicide long ago. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

12 " We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return; prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only, as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again; if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man; then you are ready for a walk. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

13 " Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest trees. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

14 " The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours …but it is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

15 " Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

16 " So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, as warm and serene and golden as on a bankside in autumn. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

17 " Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

18 " SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

19 " Let me live where I will, on this side is the city, on that the wilderness, and ever I am leaving the city more and more, and withdrawing into the wilderness. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking

20 " It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today. "

― Henry David Thoreau , Walking