walking habits Quotes

I love walking everywhere I go and following City Mapper.

New York being the greatest walking city in the world, I tend to walk everywhere as long as I am afforded the time.

There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los Angeles].

Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.

They say that no one walks in L.A., and it's definitely true, and I'm embracing that.

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another.

Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol of the ancient art of walking!

Just walking in the kitchen (and we have three kitchens at Le Bernardin), I exercise quite a lot. I also walk in Central Park for 50 minutes from my house to Le Bernardin every day, rain, shine, snow.

We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.