Sublime

Life is a battle between the Maker and His creation. Hoel grows expert at the fight.

we too should embrace walking as a high-quality source of solitude. In doing so, we should heed Thoreau’s warning that we’re not talking about a short jaunt for a little exercise, but honest-to-goodness, deep-in-the-woods, Nietzsche-on-the-slope-of-a-mountain-style long journeys—these are the grist of productive aloneness.

by John Annerino’s Running Wild and Colin Fletcher’s The Man Who Walked Through Time. I had

With what it was like to walk for miles for no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild

32the mind was a landscape of a kind and walking a means of crossing it.