Walks In The Woods Quotes:

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

- Robin Sharma

topic: Dream, Writing, Long Walks, Walks In The Woods, Discovering Who You Are

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Good Morning, Men, Monday Morning, Funny Good Morning, Morning After

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to Society. But it sometimes happens that I cannot easily shake off the village. The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is - I am out of my senses. In my walks I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Running, Morning, Thinking, Walks In Nature, Walks In The Woods

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Being Alone, Thinking, Engagement, Walks In The Woods, Over The Hill

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

- George Washington Carver

topic: Nature, Reading, Book, Nature Beauty, One With Nature

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

- Mark Twain

topic: Lying, Talking, Hiking, Strolling, Walks In The Woods

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.139, Xist Publishing

topic: Lying, Eye, Men, Walks In The Woods, Trekking

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Nature, Science, Men, Speculators, Inspirational Tree

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

topic: Thinking, Return, Mindfulness, Walks In Nature, Walks In The Woods

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Essays of Henry David Thoreau - Walking”, p.8, Editora Dracaena

topic: Nature, Garden, Woods, Walks In The Woods, Grove

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.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Distance, Two, Feet, Walks In The Woods, Walk In The Woods

I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America. Neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in Mythology than in any history of America so called that I have seen.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Excursions, and Poems - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.132, Read Books Ltd

topic: Nature, Names, America, Chaucer, Menus

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Essays of Henry David Thoreau - Walking”, p.2, Editora Dracaena

topic: Nature, Men, Wish, Walks In The Woods, Absolute Freedom

A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.

- Dan Kiley

topic: Garden, Woods, Should, Walks In The Woods, Walk In The Woods

If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Spiritual, Humanity, Walks In The Woods, Withdrawing

My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.

- Caroline Knapp

topic: Friday, Dog, New York, Walks In The Woods, Crosswords