live free, child of the mist
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what woud become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?
I confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my neighbours who confine themselves to shops and offices the whole day for weeks and months.
Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return, - prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.
What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?
... no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.
Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present.
- from Walking, Henry David Thoreau
Soooooooooo who wants to start taking nature walks with me?!
I confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my neighbours who confine themselves to shops and offices the whole day for weeks and months.
Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return, - prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.
What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?
... no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.
Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present.
- from Walking, Henry David Thoreau
Soooooooooo who wants to start taking nature walks with me?!