Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001)
“It was…the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make.
In every way, a walk to remember.”
Landon Carter, Chapter 13, p. 237
Source: 1990s, A Walk to Remember (1999)
“Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.”
On his famous moonwalk, as quoted in In the Shadow of the Moon : A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 (2007) by Francis French and Colin Burgess
Context: Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.
“How old the world is! I walk between two eternities…”
Salon of 1767 (1798), Oeuvres esthétiques <!-- p. 644 -->
Context: How old the world is! I walk between two eternities... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don’t want to die!
“Every walk we take offers subjects for profound meditation”
The Medals of Creation or First Lessons in Geology (1854)
Context: Every walk we take offers subjects for profound meditation,—every pebble that attracts our notice, matter for serious reflection; and contemplating the incessant dissolution and renovation which are taking place around us in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature, we are struck by the force and beauty of the exclamation of the poet—
"My heart is awed within me, when I think
Of the great miracle which still goes on
In silence round me—the perpetual work
Of Thy Creation, finished, yet renewed
For ever!"
“What's the most important thing in the world? Walking the walk.”
What Would Jack Do?
“There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 88
When there were rumours that there were proposals under consideration by Rajiv Gandhi and his cronies to either send him back to Punjab as Chief Minister or Impeach him as President, in: K.R. Sundar Rajan "Presidential Years:Zail Singh's posthumous defence of his controversial tenure."
