"Few people know how to take a..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
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“A little integrity is better than any career.”
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More on Walking

“The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.”
— Mark Twain
“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.”
— Henry David Thoreau

More on Nature

“A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.”
— Albert Camus
“The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.”
— Paul Simon