Solvitur ambulando, St. Augustine said. It is solved by walking.
Laura KellyTags: walking
[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.
Elizabeth von ArnimTags: travel walking enjoyment
I’ve taken to long-distance walking as a means of dissolving the mechanised matrix which compresses the space-time continuum, and decouples human from physical geography. So this isn’t walking for leisure -- that would be merely frivolous, or even for exercise -- which would be tedious. No, to underscore the seriousness of my project I like a walk which takes me to a meeting or an assignment; that way I can drag other people into my eotechnical world view. ‘How was your journey?’ they say. ‘Not bad,’ I reply. ‘Take long?’ they enquire. ‘About ten hours,’ I admit. ‘I walked here.’ My interlocutor goggles at me; if he took ten hours to get here, they’re undoubtedly thinking, will the meeting have to go on for twenty? As Emile Durkheim so sagely observed, a society’s space-time perceptions are a function of its social rhythm and its territory. So, by walking to the business meeting I have disrupted it just as surely as if I’d appeared stark naked with a peacock’s tail fanning out from my buttocks while mouthing Symbolist poetry.
Will SelfTags: walking
I might walk vast expanses
of earth and always be beginning
and I love beginning
or could learn
to love it.
Tags: optimism love walking beginnings training
Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.
Bill BrysonWalking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor world; and talking leads almost inevitably to smoking, and then farewell to nature as far as one of our senses is concerned. The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared.
C.S. LewisTags: nature solitude silence appreciation walking talking enjoyment senses
Has modern society lost a measure of its spiritual awareness because we take so little time to walk? In not allowing ourselves time to slow down, to be close to the earth around us, have we become impervious to a God who chooses to reveal Himself through His creation?
amy litzelmanTags: wonder walking contemplation
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
T.S. EliotIf you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.
Dejan StojanovicTags: wisdom books poetry philosophy literature poets earth humans walking quotes planet poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic the-sun-watches-the-sun french-riviera ivory-coast
He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape.
Dejan StojanovicTags: wisdom poetry literature walking escape quotes thoughts circle icy poetry-quotes quotes-to-live-by literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic circling
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