Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet.

Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.

Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.

I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home.