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Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
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One of the finest treks he knows of is when the sheep are herded through Spain from north to south or vice versa, depending on the season. The trek takes two months to complete. One evening he sat shooting the breeze with a colleague about their joys in life, and the other shepherd told him: ‘When you go walking with the sheep, and you see they wal
... See moreErling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
It strikes her that she envies him. His years of enforced tranquility, the patience of his slowed mind, the expansion of his blinkered senses. He can watch the dozen bare trees in the backyard for hours and see something intricate and surprising, sufficient to his desires, while she—she is still trapped in a hunger that rushes past everything.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
What's an animal? It's a rolling conversation with the land from which it comes and of which it consists. What's a human? It's a rolling conversation with the land from which it comes and of which it consists—but a more stilted, stammering conversation than that of most wild animals. The conversations can become stories and acquire the shape and ta
... See moreby John Annerino’s Running Wild and Colin Fletcher’s The Man Who Walked Through Time. I had
Scott Jurek • Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
"Nature! We are surrounded and embraced by her; powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.... We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to... See more
The Hidden Goddesses of Darwinism
But no weather interfered fatally with my walks, or rather my going abroad, for I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines;
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
