John Muir on the origin of the word "saunter" https://t.co/M2LsSKMsq4
met with but one or two persons in the course of his life who understood the art of walking, that is, of taking walks – who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering
Henry David Thoreau • Rêveries d'un Promeneur Averti
That’s why, Augustine suggests, you can be prodigal without moving an inch. What we’re mapping here is the geography of desire. It took running from Carthage to Rome to Milan for Augustine to realize that his exile was inward:
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
I might return not only with a cleaner understanding of a landscape that had been a fixation since my boyhood, but with a better grasp of who I was, and perhaps a renewed sense of whom I might yet become, before it was too late to grow and change.