5 quotes found
“For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith.”
“The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.”
“From my heel to my toe is a measured space of 29.7 centimetres or 11.7 inches. This is a unit of progress and it is also a unit of thought. 'I can only meditate when I am walking,' wrote Jean-Jacqu...”
“We tend to think of landscapes as affecting us most strongly when we are in them or on them, when they offer us the primary sensations of touch and sight. But there are also the landscapes we bear ...”
“Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss.... We easily forget that we are track-markers, through, beca...”
