Never have I thought so much, never have I realized my own existence so much, been so much alive, been so much myself...as in those journeys which I have made alone and afoot. Walking has something in it which animates and heightens my ideas: I can scarcely think when I stay in one place; … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Quote for Today: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Walker-thinkers have found various ways to accommodate the gifts that their walking brings. Caught paperless on his walks in the Czech enclaves of Iowa, maestro Dvořák scribbles the string quartets that visited his brain on his starched white shirt cuffs (so the legend goes). More proactively, Thomas Hobbes fashioned a walking stick for himself … Continue reading Quote for Today: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Quote for Today: Kevin Codd
I hear a swelling swoosh; from the south a bullet train whizzes into view on the tracks, knifes through the landscape in a matter of moments, then disappears with a whoosh. It has just covered in a few seconds what has taken me hours to walk. That very fast train reminds me that, as a … Continue reading Quote for Today: Kevin Codd
Quote for Today: Robert Mcfarlane
Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making. It's hard to create a footpath on your own...Paths connect. This is their first duty and their chief reason for being. They relate places in a literal sense, and by extension they relate people. Paths are consensual, too, because without common care … Continue reading Quote for Today: Robert Mcfarlane
Quote for Today: Tyler Knott Gregson
What if it's the there and not the here that I long for? The wander and not the wait, the magic in the lost feet stumbling down the faraway street and the way the moon never hangs quite the same. ― Tyler Knott Gregson, Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series Image: Full moon … Continue reading Quote for Today: Tyler Knott Gregson
Quote for Today: Thích Nhất Hạnh
Suppose two astronauts go to the moon. When they arrive, they have an accident and find out that they have only enough oxygen for two days. There is no hope of someone coming from Earth in time to rescue them. They have only two days to live. If you asked them at that moment, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Thích Nhất Hạnh
Quote for Today: Bruno Schulz
On Saturday afternoons I used to go for a walk with my mother. From the dusk of the hallway, we stepped at once into the brightness of the day. The passerby, bathed in melting gold, had their eyes half-closed against the glare, as if they were drenched with honey, upper lips were drawn back, exposing … Continue reading Quote for Today: Bruno Schulz
