Walkers – Quotes

If Scott Walker sees

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it’s time we take a closer look at his friends. Elizabeth Warren

You know, I once

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. Elizabeth Edwards

Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is … Read more

If a walker is

If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much … Read more

Paris… is a world

Paris… is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail. Edmund White

Most men are not

Most men are not wicked… They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers. Franz Kafka

I had no aspirations

I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I … Read more

I have always been

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. Fay Godwin

Designing is a lot

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act – if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where’s the excitement? Douglas Wilson

Sometimes I think we’re

Sometimes I think we’re all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we never look down we’re okay, but some of us lose momentum and look down for a second and are never quite the same again: we know. Dorothy Gilman