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Hiking
Hiking is a long, vigorous walk for pleasure along a trail in nature.
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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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I love going out of my way, beyond what I know, and finding my way back a few extra miles, by another trail, with a compass that argues with the map…nights alone in motels in remote western towns where I know no one and no one I know knows where I am, nights with strange paintings and floral spreads and cable television that furnish a reprieve from my own biography, when in Benjamin’s terms, I have lost myself though I know where I am. Moments when I say to myself as feet or car clear a crest or
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― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
A group to discuss the joys, trials and tribulations of life on the trail. Recommendations and d…more
1 member,
last active 7 years ago
Welcome to the Let's Get Lit(early), the official (and unofficial) book club for the fabulous fa…more
6 members,
last active 3 months ago
This is inspired by my new book club. We pick an outdoors-themed book, fiction or non and do an …more
3 members,
last active 6 years ago
