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Hiking
Hiking is a long, vigorous walk for pleasure along a trail in nature.
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My most memorable hikes can be classified as 'Shortcuts that Backfired'.
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― The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
― The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
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But walking causes absorption. Walking interminably, taking in through your pores the height of the mountains when you are confronting them at length, breathing in the shape of the hills for hours at a time during a slow descent. The body becomes steeped in the earth it treads. And thus, gradually, it stops being in the landscape: it becomes the landscape. That doesn’t have to mean dissolution, as if the walker were fading away to become a mere inflection, a footnote. It’s more a flashing moment
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― A Philosophy of Walking
― A Philosophy of Walking
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