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“We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.”

Looks Earth Rooms Victim Wander Flames Abstraction Mind Blowing Psychedelic Experience

Author:Terence McKenna

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”

“I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.”

Air Wander Breathing Indian

Book:Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.”

Want Giving Matter Dream Literature Results Knowing Violence Despair Intellectual Weakness Prison Rage Wander Madmen

Book:Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939

Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939

“What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”

“Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.”

Thinking Age Found Difficult My Own Events Wander Restaurants Extroverts

Author:Roger Moore

“Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!”

Knows Two Heaven Space Millions Know How Sun Tree Wind Miles Forests Wander Hypocrisy Wilderness Forests And Trees Wandering Around Arbor Day Two Trees

Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

Book:Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953

Source: Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”

“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”

Life Reality Happiness Walks Journey Walking Exercise Wander Hiking New Thought Trekking Strolling Sauntering Walking Away Conceiving Ideation Active Minds Hiking Outdoors

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

“Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.”

Events Miracle Wander Remembered Gallery

Author:Martha Beck

“Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.”

Humans Persons Past Built Wander Denial Infant Meter

Author:Martha Beck

“I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.”

Writing Wells Doe Walks Journey Walking Wander Hiking Notebook Trekking Strolling Sauntering Few Words

Author:Mary Oliver

“In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.”

Found Interesting Streets Dog Circumstances Stranger Wander These Days Parks Peculiar Oddballs Mutts Inversions

Author:Susan Orlean

“In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.”

Years Past Courses Found Havens Musical Wander Cds My Past Ipods Hallways

Author:Susan Orlean

“If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally.”

People Ifs Use Walks Journey Walking Creating Work Out Wander Lunch Hiking Workplace Incentives Stairs Trekking Strolling Sauntering

Author:Mehmet Oz

“Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.”

Knows Men Earth Satisfaction Seeking Envy Wander Exile Craving

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.”

Mind Fantasy Students Ten Wander Fantastic

Author:Grace Paley

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”

“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

Source: Places

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

Source: Places

“I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.”

House Animal Saws Dangerous Planets Wander Pet Meant To Be Roaming Hippo Dangerous Animals

Author:Karl Pilkington

“Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.”

I Can Eye Lying Walks Vision Steps Seeing Journey Land Flower Walking Bed Stones Legs Wander Rough Take Me Thank God Hiking Patches Trekking Strolling Cotton Sauntering Bogs

Author:Beatrix Potter

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Author:Marcel Proust

“Take a walk on the wild side.”

Sides Walks Journey Walking Wander Hiking Trekking Strolling Sauntering Wild Side

Author:Lou Reed

“Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.”

Ends Beautiful Space Walks Views Cities Journey Streets Walking Secure Wander Hiking Trekking Transport Rubbish Strolling Sauntering

Author:Richard Rogers

“And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.”

Writing Ideas Seeing Wander Bliss Take Me Notebook Cafes

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.”

Men Believe Mountain Plant Wander Borders Old Man Pakistan Caves Insects Bin Laden Living On Afghan

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.”

Light Walks Darkness Journey Walking Wander Hiking Trekking Strolling Sauntering

Author:John Ruskin

“While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.”

Ifs Mind Moments Wander Present Moment Meditating

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.”

Mind Able Doubt Tired Wander Dislike Starting Over Begin Again

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.”

Problem Reality Science Walks Journey Walking Wander Hiking No Problem Trekking Strolling Sauntering Formidable

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a new mental adventure since high school. So that's what I like about books on tape, so my mind can't wander anywhere.”

Ifs Mind Book School Havens Adventure High School Wander Riding Tape Bike Scenarios Replay

Author:David Sedaris

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

“There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.”

Two Reason Felt Black Months Various Mood Horrible Wander Mess Desperate

Author:Robert Smith

“I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.”

Stills Attention Records Stores Wander Record Stores Album Covers

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.”

Ifs Thinking Walks Careers Journey Walking Mountain Including Wander Valleys Gravity Swings Hiking Trekking Strolling Sauntering Pendulums Swing Sets

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.”

Doe Has Beens Enough Fields Hunger Warm Wander Feds Yearning Discontent Shiver

Book:Sweet Thursday

Source: Sweet Thursday

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

“The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.”

Years Lasts Lost Hundred Western Myth Mythology Wander Who We Are Horizon Western Society Where We Came

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.”

Writing Guitar Wander Guitar Music

Author:James Taylor

“People discover you at festivals. They come to see Coldplay or whoever, and then wander over and catch your act. Festivals make a lot of sense to me.”

People Wander Festivals

Author:Tinie Tempah

“Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.”

Littles Long Wander Hurrying Completing

Author:Tertullian

“Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”

Inspirational Reality Today Nature Scientist Relation Mathematics Structure Experiments Wander Mathematical Equations Risk Management Mathematics And Science Science Physics Mathematical Equations

Author:Nikola Tesla

“When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.”

Ifs Feels Walks Journey Flower Walking Wander Hiking Trekking Strolling Sauntering

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”

Source: The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

“I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

Long Pain Life Is Sports Risk Losing Understood Violent Wander Gambling Territory Acceptable Tickets Bargains Crippled Linebackers

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.”

Men Walks Cities Journey Walking Wander Endurance Hiking Traps Trekking Strolling Sauntering

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.”

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