The Spirit of Sauntering: Thoreau on the Art of Walking and the Perils of a Sedentary Lifestyle
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The Spirit of Sauntering: Thoreau on the Art of Walking and the Perils of a Sedentary Lifestyle
If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again — if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man — then you are ready for a walk.... See more
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No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the
Maria Popova • The Spirit of Sauntering: Thoreau on the Art of Walking and the Perils of a Sedentary Lifestyle
Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest.
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All good things are wild and free.
Maria Popova • The Spirit of Sauntering: Thoreau on the Art of Walking and the Perils of a Sedentary Lifestyle
“Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning’s flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself — and not a taper lighted at the hearthstone of the race, which pales before the light of common day.” )