Michel De Certeau Quotes

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

I'm moving around; doing stuff. I can walk. I can even run.

I walk: I prefer walking.

Make your feet your friend.

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but which a high moments seems to start up again from the deepest rhythms of my own body. How often have I had this longing for an infinite walk - of going unimpeded, until the movement of my body as I walk fell into the flight of streets under my feet - until I in my body and the world in its skin of earth were blended into a single act of knowing.

Of all exercises, walking is the best.

For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

Followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone.

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

A path is made by walking on it.

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.

Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.

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

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

It is a great art to saunter !

Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.

... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!

The most important lens you have is your legs

Runners are poor walkers.