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William Wordsworth was said to have walked 180,000 miles in his lifetime. Charles Dickens captured the ecstasy of near-madness and insomnia in the essay "Night Walks" and once said, "The sum of the whole is this: Walk and be happy; Walk and be healthy." Robert Louis Stevenson wrote of "the great fellowship of the Open Road" and the "brief but priceless meetings which only trampers know." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche said, "Only those thought..
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We do not go into the woods to rough it; we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home. --GEORGE WASHINGTON SEARS Now or never. --HENRY DAVID THOREAU I get faster as I get older. --EMMA GATEWOOD
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche said, "Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value."
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In her book Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit writes: A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape, and to follow a route is to accept an interpretation, or to stalk your predecessors on it as scholars and trackers and pilgrims do. To walk the same way is to reiterate something deep; to move through the same space the same way is a means of becoming the same person, thinking the same thoughts. The
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