Walking

• Walking , Henry David Thoreau


• Reveries of the Solitary Walker , Jean-Jacques Rousseau


• Ki (Trees), Kōda Aya


• Méditations poétiques , Alphonse de Lamartine


• A Field Guide to Getting Lost , Oristelle Bonis et Rebecca Solnit


• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek , Annie Dillard


• The Gardener and His Master , Jean de La Fontaine


• A Philosophy of Walking , Frédéri

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I’ve come to crave the solitude and asceticism of these solo walks. There is no quieter place on earth than the third hour of a good long day of walking. It’s alone in this space, this walk-induced hypnosis, that the mind is finally able to receive the strange gifts and charities of the world. If that sounds like woo-woo nonsense, it feels even mor

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