John Muir on the origin of the word "saunter" https://t.co/M2LsSKMsq4
Bashō’s Narrow Road to the Deep North and Parkman’s The Oregon Trail (1849) to the great travel books of our own day: the vomiting camels of Thesiger’s Arabian Sands, the muddy Congo paths of Redmond O’Hanlon’s No Mercy, the flitting and plodding of Bruce Chatwin in Patagonia—and, I should add, to a lesser degree, nearly everything in travel that I
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I’ll first note the Latin phrase solvitur ambulando meaning “it is solved by walking.” The phrase is attributed to both St. Augustine and the Greek philosopher, Diogenes. The sense of it, as I take it, is that when you are stuck on something, you should get up and take a walk. By the act of walking you somehow allow your mind to think more freely a... See more
The Ambling Mind
The world reveals itself to those who walk
— Werner Herzog
"The World Reveals Itself to Those Who Walk"
traveler there is no path
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Machado_Traveler-There-Is-No-Path.pdf
Traveler, There Is No Path
by Antonio Machado
Everything passes on and everything remains,
But our lot is to pass on,
To go on making paths,
Paths across the sea.
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I never sought glory,
Nor to leave my song
In... See more