10 times great minds thought alike about walking

Loving your walking? You’re in good company!

1

‘What a joy walking is. All the cares of life seem far away and harmless, the world tranquil and welcoming and good‘
— Bill Bryson

2

‘Walking is the perfect way of moving. It is the one way of freedom’
— Elizabeth von Arnim

3

‘Walking is a man’s best medicine’
— Hippocrates

4

‘If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish’
— Charles Dickens

5

‘Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and away from every illness’
— Søren Kierkegaard

6

‘The moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow”
— Henry David Thoreau

7

‘To walk alone is the greatest rest’
— Virginia Woolf

8

‘All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking’
— Friedrich Nietzsche

9

‘The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before’
— Albert Einstein

10

‘Walking is the favourite sport of the good and the wise’
— A L Rowse