World Sauntering Day is celebrated on 19 June 2014. The day is also referred to as “International Sauntering Day”. Sauntering is a style of walking and this day tells you to take life easy, smell the roses, slow down and enjoy life instead of running in the rat race.
Here we present World Sauntering Day 2014 SMS, Wishes, Messages, Greetings In English:
“I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks – who had the genius, so to speak, for sauntering: which word is beautifully derived “from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked for charity, under the pretense of going à la Sainte Terre,’ to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, “There goes a Sainte-Terrer,” a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walking
“It takes days of practice to learn the art of sauntering. Commonly we stride through the out-of-doors too swiftly to see more than the most obvious and prominent things.
For observing nature, the best pace is a snail’s pace.”
– Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons
“‘Walking’ [by H.D. Thoreau] is a lyrical, meandering essay on the value of sauntering and on the preservation of what is wild in the world. It is an amazing, impassioned work, especially considering it was published well before the automobile came to define the limits of our experience of place. It is a call to participation in the world, for living among that which is untamed.”
– Zane Parker
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