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I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back. …the subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic. Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast. De benen zijn de wielen van creativiteit. My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. Reiziger, er zijn geen paden, paden worden gemaakt door erop te wandelen Tijdens de wandeling valt alles op zijn plaats, de orde is volmaakt, niets van buitenaf kan deze orde verstoren, de wandelaar heerst over zijn universum (…). Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin. Drugs zijn voertuigen voor mensen die vergeten zijn hoe ze moeten lopen. If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. Voor wie niet weet waar hij naartoe wil, zijn alle wegen goed. Pelgrimeren is bidden met je voeten. Walking is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside. My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is. All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.