Iain Sinclair Quotes

I encourage people to pick up small habits like taking a walk after meals... we've become way too sedentary. Just move!

Everyone should dance more. Everyone should walk more.

How do you walk from one place to another? What makes you want to walk someplace? Any place that you want to get out of your car and walk is a good place by definition.

I kind of need to be ambulatory to write lyrics.

I walk wherever my errands take me.

Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.

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

I walk: I prefer walking.

We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.

Walking is almost as important as breathing, for me.

Carry your groceries, garden, and do other activities that keep you moving. You will add more years to your life and more life to your years.

Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back of the refrigerator or half a mile along your favorite walk.

When you're riding a bike you're more connected to the outdoors and to other people than you are when you are stuck in your car.

Some injuries heal more quickly if you keep moving.

I've got plenty of arthritis. But if you keep moving, it won't bother you that much. That's why old guys stiffen up. They forget they have to get out of their chairs and do something. You let the moss grow over, it's your own fault.

How much you move affects your strength, your power, your balance, how you look, how you think, how well you withstand the high winds and rain showers of life and how long you will stand. Everyone needs concentrated doses of several kinds of movement to remain functional.

Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol of the ancient art of walking!

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.

I've always been better moving than I am standing still.

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there. I've begun to think we sit far more than we're supposed to." He smiled. "Why else would we have feet?

I got interested in the contradiction between people who are understanding the city by not moving a single inch, by remaining in the same place all the time, and people like me who are constantly roaming around.

The beauty of moving naturally, i.e. walking and gardening, is they're low impact. You're less likely to fall down and break a hip. Setting up your life so you're nudged into general physical activity every day is a strategy for your entire life from age 10 to 100.