It’s not a big deal, Willson Moore insists.

Three times a week the 88-year-old retired lawyer walks from his home at the Kahala Nui some four miles along Kalanianaole Highway for exercise.

He brings two bags with him — one for recyclables and the other for regular trash — and picks up whatever rubbish he can find as he meanders in and out of the valleys and along the highway.

Moore says the exercise is the thing; picking up trash is incidental. Just the neighborly thing to do.

“I’m a local boy, and I hate to see the beauty around us marred by garbage, that’s all,” he says. “It’s nothing. Don’t make anything out of it.”

Moore, the son of former judge and Bishop Estate trustee Willson Carr Moore, grew up in Honolulu and attended Punahou School; the University of California, Berkeley; and the UC Hastings College of Law, where he became the first third- ­­generation graduate.

While in San Francisco, Moore met and later married former Maui resident Sally Churchill, then a student at Mills College.

Returning to Hawaii, Moore worked as an attorney with Rush Moore LLP for some 45 years, the last 15 specializing as a defense attorney in aviation-related cases.

Moore retired in 1996 but was hardly ready to take it easy. He still isn’t.

“I still have my health, still have my marbles,” he says.

And so in addition to his walks around the neighborhood — no big deal, remember — Moore also keeps busy as a docent at Bishop Museum, where he gets to indulge his love of history.

“I’m a big history buff, and I’ve always had an interest in all things Hawaiian,” he says. “It was a natural graduation.”

Moore also remains active in the legal community. For the last 23 years, he has served as a member of the Judicial Evaluation Review Panel, assisting the Hawaii chief justice in evaluating judges in the appellate, circuit, family and district courts.

For fun, Moore maintains an active golf schedule. He’s been a member of the Waialae Country Club for 55 years and still hits the links there twice a week with a regular group of friends, maintaining a more than respectable 13 handicap. He also golfs once a month with friends from church.

“I’m an old fart — makule — so I play off the gold tees now,” he says, laughing. “But I still have a lot of fun.”

Reach Michael Tsai at ­mtsai@staradvertiser.com.