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When we are busy at work and busy at home, an hour's walking every day becomes a real luxury. If done alone, the walk injects a period of meditation into the day, and if done in company, it allows space for some really good conversation.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I like talking and walking. It's more productive than doing just one.

— George M. Church

A walk in nature is a perfect backdrop to combine exercise, prayer, and meditation while enhancing the benefit of these activities.

— Chuck Norris

Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps... this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.

— Paula Cole

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

— Saint Francis de Sales

There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.

— Bjork

Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.

— Andrew Weil

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.

— Tom Hodgkinson

When I'm not working, I'm walking.

— Joseph Altuzarra

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

— Henry David Thoreau

✗Opposing Perspectives

You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.

— Beck