rediscover the joy of walking

This is a letter to my colleagues, and I thought I’d share it here as well…

Dear all,

Can you guess where this photo was taken…

Around 18:20 just a few minutes’ walk from
our office! 🙂

This facility has just happened to be provided to us by coincidence so if you like you could use the opportunity in the evenings to take a brisk walk on the neat walking path around the lake, and enjoy a sunset on this bench before you go home/continue to work.

quotegarden.com – here are some of them…

Now shall I walk

~W.H. Davies

 
Everywhere is walking distance
if you have the time.  ~Steven
Wright

I have two doctors,
my left leg and my right.  ~G.M. Trevelyan

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.
Angels whisper to a man
when he goes for a walk. 
~Raymond Inmon

Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move,
my thoughts begin to flow. 

~Henry David Thoreau

My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing. 
~Aldous Huxley

 
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. 
~Wallace Stevens

After a day’s walk everything has twice
its usual value.  ~George Macauley Trevelyan

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, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed.,
The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938

A pedestrian is someone who
thought there were a couple of gallons
left in the tank.  ~Author Unknown

He who limps is still walking. 
~Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Walking isn’t a lost art – one must,
by some means, get to
the garage. 
~Evan Esar

If you are walking to seek, ye shall find. 
~Sommeil Liberosensa
 

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. 
~Jacqueline Schiff

We live in a fast-paced society.  Walking slows us down. 
~Robert Sweetgall

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. 
~Henry David Thoreau

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. 
~Frederick L. Knowles

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some
people can be persuaded to go for a walk. 
~O.A. Battista

If you pick ’em up, O Lord, I’ll put ’em down.
~Author Unknown, “Prayer of the
Tired Walker”

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty.
She’s ninety-three today and we don’t
know where the hell she is.  ~Ellen DeGeneres