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Hiking
Hiking is a long, vigorous walk for pleasure along a trail in nature.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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― Our National Parks
― Our National Parks
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Walking causes a repetitive, spontaneous poetry to rise naturally to the lips, words as simple as the sound of footsteps on the road. There also seems to be an echo of walking in the practice of two choruses singing a psalm in alternate verses, each on a single note, a practice that makes it possible to chant and listen by turns. Its main effect is one of repetition and alternation that St Ambrose compared to the sound of the sea: when a gentle surf is breaking quietly on the shore the regularit
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― A Philosophy of Walking
― A Philosophy of Walking
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Have you thought about going on a trek or climbing a mountain? Do you need inspiration to make a…more
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