My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-three today and we don’t know where the hell she is.

—Ellen DeGeneres

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

—Wallace Stevens

I have two doctors: my left leg and my right.

 —G.M. Trevelyan

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

—Matthew Henry

It takes days of practice to learn the art of sauntering. Commonly, we stride through the out-of-doors too swiftly to see more than the most obvious and prominent things. For observing nature, the best pace is a snail’s pace.

 —Edwin Way Teale

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

—Hal Borland

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.

 —Carlos Casteneda

Our true home is in the present moment. To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

—Chris Howell

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

 —Chinese proverb

The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily where it ends.

—Tom Brown, Jr

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.

 —Stephen Graham

If you look for the truth outside yourself, / It gets farther and farther away. / Today walking alone, I meet it everywhere I step. / It is the same as me, yet I am not it. / Only if you understand it in this way / Will you merge with the way things are.

 —Tung-Shan