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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking t...

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I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get ...

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I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years b...

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They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't ha...

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They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't ha...

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They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't ha...

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They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't ha...

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We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this uprig...

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It is a phrase that may well perplex a poor modern, girt about on every side by clocks and chimes......

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Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They ...

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Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot wa...

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The stones were sharp,The wind came at my back;Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

Some of the dairy people, who were also out of doors on the first Sunday evening after their engagem...

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

A while ago I said that, 'You know, I like a guy - he doesn't have to be all rich and famous - he ca...

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Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street,...

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And that luck was only fate's cheating, giving an illusion of power. But that illusion lingered, and...

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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go wal...

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I am extremely happy walking on the downs...I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are s...

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Werner HerzogOf Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris

As I went walking I saw a sign thereAnd on the sign it said "No Trespassing."But on the other side i...

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What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to ...

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Yann MartelThe High Mountains of Portugal

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

It's a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.

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A. M. HomesThis Book Will Save Your Life

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never...

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Symphony starts when you walk together, feel the heart beats and understand the unspoken words.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

We can stage our own act on the planet-build our cities on its plains, dam its rivers, plant its top...

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Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

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In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

It is winter proper; the cold weather, such as it is, has come to stay. I bloom indoors in the winte...

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Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of...

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Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking a...

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Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall l...

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Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, ...

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Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles liter...

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Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, an...

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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people a...

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My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our hous...

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It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

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Bruce ChatwinWhat Am I Doing Here?

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking...

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Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise...

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C. S. LewisSurprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly wh...

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When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athle...

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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we d...

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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we d...

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I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. I...

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The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

Only those thoughts which come from walking have any value

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit...

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All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact...

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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

We are but faint-hearted crusaders...our expeditions are but tours...half the walk is but retracing ...

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One cannot walk in such regions, consciouslywithout enlargement of thought. There areheights and val...

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Henry Stephens SaltOn Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scafell

I send thee, love, this upland flower I foundWhile wandering lonely with o'erclouded heart,Hid in a ...

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Henry Stephens SaltOn Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scafell

Walking is man's best medicine.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. Ther...

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Yes, alive,” said Fudge. “That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t rea...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you devel...

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There was a lust of wandering in his feet that burned to set out for the ends of the earth. On! On! ...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Home is everything you can walk to.

When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone,...

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I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's lik...

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There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish...

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, seri...

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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, w...

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John MuirJohn of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs

Dorcas wasn't a fast walker. It was difficult for me to keep behind her. I tried to let others, jogg...

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Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot b...

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Jules VerneAround the World in Eighty Days

I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harl...

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Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is q...

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Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I g...

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