"Perhaps the itinerant monks called ‘Gyrovagues’ were especially responsible for promoting this view of our condition as eternal strangers. They journeyed ceaselessly from monastery to monastery, witho..."
- Frédéric Gros
"When one has walked a long way to reach the turning in the path that discloses an anticipated view, and that view appears, there is always a vibration of the landscape. It is repeated in the walker’s ..."
"forest paths – flat labyrinths – and gentle plains invite the walker’s body to softness, to languor. And memories arise like eddying mists. The air is more bracing with Nietzsche, and above all sharp,..."
"Zhuang Zhu also meant that the feet as such are small pieces of space, but their vocation (‘walking’) is to articulate the world’s space. The size of the foot, the gap between the legs, have no role, ..."
"In the history of walking, many experts considering him (Wordsworth) the authentic originator of the long expedition. He was the first – at a time (the late eighteenth century) when walking was the lo..."
"And as we know from the pilgrimage diaries of Swami Ramdas, it is when we renounce everything that everything is given to us, in abundance. Everything: meaning the intensity of presence itself."
"Leaders walk their talks. They don’t give theories that do not work. They have clarity into their dreams and insight into their directions!"
- Israelmore Ayivor
"A joyful life,reaching out to people from all walks of life."
- Lailah Gifty Akita
"You are not walking slow enough, when taking a walk, if you do not come across as bored or depressed (to the average sane person)."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"I pass a construction site, abandoned for the night, and a few blocks later, the playground of the elementary school my son attended, the metal sliding board gleaming under a streetlamp and the swings..."
- Blake Crouch