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Like a well-rooted tree on an adventure full of wonder. Get to know a place by engaging all of your senses in landscape. Walk. See patterns of nature and culture. Taste terroir. Hear your own footsteps, symphonies of the wild world and the stories of people you meet. Smell the rockroses and practice the wild and domesticated languages of plants, animals, stones, fungi, and weather. Feel your aching legs. Walk some more.
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I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understand the art of Walking, that is,
of taking walks, who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering... Henry David Thoreau, Walking
Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind.
Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility. Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. Ursula K. LeGuin
Your true kingdom is just around you, and your leg is your scepter. Alfred Barron, Walking as a Fine Art, 1875
