"Walking liberates thoughts. It is then that thoughts can arise, surface or take shape. A walk unshackles the body's limbs along with the mind's faculties. The motion of the body gives a little more spring to the mind. To stimulate the thinking, to move reflection forward, to deepen inventiveness, the mind needs the help of an active body. My thoughts sleep if I sit still; my fancy does not go so well by itself as when my legs move it. So there's no point in sitting over your desk when reflection is blocked. You need to get up and take a stroll. Walk, to get yourself moving, so that in sympathy with the body's surge the mind too will start moving again."
Frederic Gros,
"A Philosophy of Walking"
Photos: (Top) Fremont Cottonwood leaf on Watson Lake, Bellvue, CO, November 19, 2014; (Middle) Alpenglow on Long's Peak, Mills Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, November 22, 2014; (Bottom) Limber Pines with Hallett Peak looming in the mist, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, November 24, 2014
"A Philosophy of Walking"
Photos: (Top) Fremont Cottonwood leaf on Watson Lake, Bellvue, CO, November 19, 2014; (Middle) Alpenglow on Long's Peak, Mills Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, November 22, 2014; (Bottom) Limber Pines with Hallett Peak looming in the mist, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, November 24, 2014
No comments:
Post a Comment