Torbjørn Ekelund > Quotes

“The Norwegian word for “cairn,” varde, comes from the Old Norse word varði, which means “attentiveness” or “vigilance.” The English word “cairn” means “heap of rocks.”
― Torbjørn Ekelund, In Praise of Paths: Walking through Time and Nature

“IT’S NEVER BEEN my experience that things get more complicated when I walk. On the contrary, everything becomes simpler and clearer.”
― Torbjørn Ekelund, In Praise of Paths: Walking through Time and Nature

“(...) predodžba o prirodi kao areni za velika saznanja najobičnija je romantična izmišljotina. Možda uopće nije istina da ti se glava čim odeš sam u šumu ispuni velikim mislima. Možda je upravo suprotno? Možda se glava tada samo isprazni od velikih misli i upravo je to ono što nam se učini tako oslobađajućim. Jer misli koje se u šumi javljaju uvijek su vrlo primitivne. Toplo, hladno. Lako, teško. Mokar, suh. Sretan, tužan. Gladan, sit. Umoran, budan.”
― Torbjørn Ekelund, A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature

“If the natural path is the most expedient way between two points, hiking trails are the most beautiful.”
― Torbjørn Ekelund, In Praise of Paths: Walking through Time and Nature

“To maintain a path is to walk it.”
― Torbjørn Ekelund, In Praise of Paths: Walking through Time and Nature

“A person who is running as quickly as possible has their attention focused on their own body. Whereas the attention of a person walking slowly is aimed away from themselves, toward the world and everything outside.”
― Torbjørn Ekelund, In Praise of Paths: Walking through Time and Nature

“I am the happy wanderer, as free from cares I go, along the endless country path, I like to walk so slow.”
― Torbjørn Ekelund, In Praise of Paths: Walking through Time and Nature