Quotations and Sayings 6
"If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. "
(Raymond Inmon)
"There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country.
A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken
at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast."
(Paul Scott Mowrer)
"My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view."
(H. Fred Ale)
"Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration."
(Lou Erickson)
"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."
(Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, 1871)
"There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling."
(Mirabel Osler)
"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out
till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. "
(John Muir)
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
(John Muir)
"It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven."
(Matthew Henry)
"Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move,
my thoughts begin to flow. "
(Henry David Thoreau)
"
An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."
(Henry David Thoreau)
"The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."
(George Bernard Shaw)
"In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death."
(Sam Llewelyn)
"Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart."
(Russell Page)
"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder."
(Alfred Austin)
"Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways;
a few walk across lots."
(Henry David Thoreau, Walking)
"It is a great art to saunter. "
(Henry David Thoreau, 1841)
"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)
"Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks.
But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun."
(Ruth Westheimer)
"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses."
(Hanna Rion)
"One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides."
(W.E. Johns, The Passing Show)
"Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest."
(Douglas William Jerrold, about Australia, A Land of Plenty)
"I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden."
(John Erskine)
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will
flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their
freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will
drop off like falling leaves."
(John Muir)
"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."
(Friedrich Nietzche)
"The longest journey begins with a single step."
(Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching)
"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful."
(Abram L. Urban)
"In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it."
(Frank McKinney Hubbard)
"Good walking leaves no track behind it."
(Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching)
"Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and
here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question of superior
or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are on at the
moment. Getting there (as they say) is not important; the wandering
about in the wilderness or in the olive groves or in the
bayous is the whole point."
(Henry Mitchell, Gardening Is a Long Road, 1998 )
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backward" s.
(Abraham Lincoln)
"Above all do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday I walk myself into
a state of well being and walk away from every illness. I have walked
myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome
that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, and the more
one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill...if one keeps on
walking everything will be alright."
(Soren Kierkegaard)
"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."
(Walt Whitman)
"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
(Marcelene Cox)
"Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees."
(Anne Raver)
"It's when you are safe at home that you're having an adventure.
When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. "
(Thorton Wilder)
"I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop,
I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs."
(Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions)
"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive at where we started
And know the place for the first time."
(T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding)
"Walking is also an ambulation of mind."
(Gertel Ehrlich)
"Meandering leads to perfection."
(Lao Tzu)
"Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart."
(Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks)
"I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day."
(F. Frankfort Moore, A Garden of Peace)
"Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not madeBy singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.
(Rudyard Kipling, "The Glory of the Garden")
"When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too."
(Linda Solegato)
"Never have a path for walking on less than three feet wide."
(Martin Hoyles)
"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others."
(Ambrose Bierce)
"A garden should feel like a walk in the woods."
(Dan , American landscape designer)
"Walking would teach people the quality that youngsters
find so hard to learn - patience."
(Edward P. Weston)
"I like long walks, especially when they are taken
by people who annoy me."
(Fred Allen)
"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded
to stay out until sundown:
for going out, I found, was really going in."
(John Muir)
"Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking."
(Antonio Machado)
"Take thy plastic spade,It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,They are thy colours.
(William Mason, The English Garden, 1782)
"I know that if odour were visible, as colour is,I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
(Robert Bridges, "Testament of Beauty")
"It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves."
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
"It will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one."
(Edna St. Vincent Millay)
"You may also want to bring the practice of wogging into your life.
Half slow walking (going uphill) and freely surrendered, speedy
jogging (going downhill), it may become your preferred meditation
posture or form of dance. The goal of the practice is not to condition
the body aerobically; that happens as a natural byproduct. The goal
of the practice is to open to and merge with the breath, letting your
natural, surrendered breath determine how fast or slow your body
moves, to stay as loose and relaxed as possible, to let every part of
the body move as fluidly as possible, to surrender to the sensation
and energies of the body as you keep playing with balance, to keep
emptying the mind and staying in clear perception of vision and sound.
Full-bodied breath comes easier during a wog than during any other
activity. Sensations can be felt through the entire body. Vision can
become very clear, and the mind can stay very empty."
(Will Johnson, Yoga of the Mahamudra, 2005, p. 134)
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth."
(Robert Frost)
"There is this to be said for walking: It's the one mode of human
locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright,
erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches
like a frog. "
(Edward Abbey )
""The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making." - Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, p. 5. )
"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."
(John Muir)
"Flowers are the sweetest thing God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into."
(Henry Beecher)
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
(Marcus Tullius Cicero)
"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
(Mahatma Gandhi)
"The greatest gift of a garden is the restoration of the five senses."
(Hanna Rion)
"Some people like to make a little garden out of life
and walk down a path."
(Jean Anouilhi)
"He who limps is still walking."
(Stanislaw J. Lec)
" Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk.
It is walking toward me, without hurrying."
(Jean Cocteau)
"To find new things, take the path you took yesterday."
(John Burroughs)
"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the
water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an
evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be
elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these
are some of the rewards of the simple life. "
(John Burroughs)
"Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds."
(Carl von Linnaeus)
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
(Eric Hoffer)
"The hum of bees is the voice of the garden."
(Elizabeth Lawrence)
"There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments."
(Janet Kilburn Phillips)
"Flowers...have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its vigor."
(Henry Ward Beecher)
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
(Frank Lloyd Wright)
"Like one that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head,
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread. "
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
"Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not
absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to
play for a season."
(Leslie Stephen)
" I was the world in which I walked."
(Wallace Stevens, Tea at the Palaz of Hoon)
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. "
(Wallace Stevens)
"Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow."
(Frances Hodgson Burnett)
"Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth."
(Kahlil Gibran)
"How pleasant the lives of the birds must be, living in love in a leafy tree."
(Mary Howitt)
"All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be."
(Allen Lacy)
"A single rose can be my garden...a single friend, my world."
(Leo Buscaglia)
"A garden is the best alternative therapy."
(Germaine Greer)
"There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it."
(Minnie Aumonier)
"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go."
(Robert Louis. Stevenson)
"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, The Gentle Art of Tramping)
"If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go
at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it
demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer
swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours
takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't
have to reserve a time and a court for."
(Edward Hoagland)
"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust."
(Gertrude Jekyll)
"Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange."
(John Kehoe)
"And the day came when the risk (it took) to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
(Anais Nin)
"Singing the same song at a different tone,
In thoughts, destined to die, unknown.
Born unto a world not of our own,
We walked together, walking alone."
(Michael R. Anderson, Walking Alone)
"All power comes from the legs. Through the correct training of stepping, the martial artist
will be able to make quick and agile transitions during combat. Victory in fighting depends
on the proper use of footwork. There is an old Chinese martial arts proverb that states:
"To practice boxing without training the legs is a foolish and hazardous venture." It is
very important to develop the power and energy of the legs; only then can true martial
power be cultivated."
(Jerry Alan Johnson, The Essence of Internal Martial Arts, p. 21. )
"The place where you lose the trail is not
necessarily the place where it ends."
(Tom Brown, Jr.)
"A flower touches everyone's heart."
(Georgia O'Keefe)
"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality."
(
Mahatma Gandhi)
"Flowers and plants are silent presences; They nourish every sense except the ear."
(May Sarton)
"My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing. "
(Aldous Huxley)
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets
his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more; it is a tale
told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
(William Shakespeare)
" Walking around
an early spring garden
going nowhere."
(Kyoshi)
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time."
(William Cowper)
"As one grows older one should grow more expert at finding beauty in unexpected places, in deserts and even in towns, in ordinary human faces and among wild weeds."
(C.C.Vyvyan)
"It has been said that there are landscapes one can
walk through, landscapes which can be gazed upon,
landscapes in which one may dwell... Those fit for
walking through or being gazed upon are not equal
to those in which one may dwell or ramble."
(Kuo Hsi)
" Don't think you're on the right road
just because it's a well-beaten path."
(Author Unknown)
"The contented person enjoys the scenery of a detour."
(Author Unknown)
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
(Steven Wright)
"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you
miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where
you are going and why."
(Eddie Cantor)
"Farewell we call to hearth and hall!
Though wind may blow and rain may fall.
We must away ere the break of day.
Far over wood and mountain tall."
(J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings)
"When you walking along naturally,
you're walking in the harmony of the Unborn."
(Bankei (1622-1693))
"It's amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing
nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the nicest part
of gardening is walking around in a daze, idly deadheading
the odd dahlia, wondering where on earth to squeeze in yet
another impulse buy, debating whether to move the
recalcitrant artemisia one more time, or daydreaming
about where to put the pergola."
(Jane Garmey, A Writer in the Garden)
" A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians
prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.
It was a mind-altering drug we took daily."
(Paul Fleischman, Seedfolks)
"Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation,
a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind.
Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility."
(Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild)
"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle.
But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin
air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle
which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green
leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes.
All is a miracle."
(Thich Nhat Han)
"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)
"What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells
a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can
bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none
others have walked.)"
(Mark Twain
"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)
"I like long walks, especially when
they are taken by people who annoy me."
(Chris Howell)
"A man's health can be judged by which he takes
two at a time - pills or stairs."
(Joan Welsh)
"Walks: The body advances, while the mind flutters
around it like a bird."
(Jules Renard)
"The more zigzag the way, the deeper the scenery.
The winding path approaches the secluded and peaceful place."
(Huang Binhong)
"Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can
substitute for putting one foot in front of the other."
(M. C. Richardson)
" All paths lead nowhere, so it is important
to choose a path that has heart. "
(Carlos Castaneda)
"All walking is discovery. On foot we take
the time to see things whole."
(Hal Borland)
"It is good to collect things; it is better to take walks.
(Anatole France)
"Before supper take a little walk,
after supper do the same."
(Erasmus)
"It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end."
(Ursula K. LeGuin)
"
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an
unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the
medicine and psychology in the world. "
(Paul Dudley White)
"The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and
be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to
walk steadily and with a purpose."
(Charles Dickens)
"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, Circle of the Seasons)
"The world belongs to the energetic."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather
has passed into the fiber of your body. I measure your health by the
number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out. "
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say
you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal
of the expedition."
(Katherine Hepburn)
"Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."
(Harry Truman (Advice on how to live to be 80.))
"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five
miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven today and we
don't know where the hell she is."
(Ellen Degeneres)
"A man should never plant a garden larger than his wife can take care of."
(T.H. Everett)
"Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees."
(Karle Wilson Baker)
"You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful."
(Montagu Don)
"Make the commitment to gradually improve both your exercise
performance and your eating habits. Take your time, what's the
hurry? View it as a journey to improve yourself. Although this
is difficult, focus on the journey, not the end result."
(Bob Greene)
"One thing that you find out when you have been practicing mindfulness
for a while is that nothing is quite as simple as it appears. This is as true
for walking as it is for anything else. For one thing, we carry our mind
around with us when we walk, so we are usually absorbed in our own
thoughts to one extent or another. We are hardly ever just walking, even
when we are just going out for a walk. Walking meditation involves
intentionally attending to the experience of walking itself. This brings
your attention to the actual experience of walking as you are doing it,
focusing on the sensations in your feet and legs, feeling your whole
body moving. You can also integrate awareness of your breathing
with the experience."
(John Kabat-Zinn)
"The mere thought of walking outdoors on a brilliant golden-blue day
causes fire-works of delight to go off in most people's psyche. It gives
one an instant feeling of happiness and that is meditation! We are not
only in touch, at that moment, with the physical splendour of nature,
but also with the beauty of merging our own spiritual nature with it."
(Karen Zebroff)
"Part of the challenge in taking up Zen training is appreciating that formal
study is focused and dedicated, but also in a certain sense contrived. Each
step in kinhin is a wondrous linking of breath and mind and sangha and self,
and is obviously also walking in circles really slowly in a cramped room. It's
a device, and it's mysteriously right. It's very ordinary, and it's as
extraordinary as the universe itself."
(Bonnie Myotai Treace, Moonlit Window )
"
A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes;
a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs;
an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all -
he's walking on them."
(Leonard L. Levinson)