On FootA sweeping social history on walkingfrom humanity's first steps to modern urban pavement pounders "I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understand the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks, who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering."Henry David Thoreau (1817 1862) " Everything is within walking distance if you have the time."Stephen Wright (1955 ) For approximately six million years, humans have walked the earth.