"If you have to go anywhere, go on your own feet. It may be trying, but not so much so as the bother of horses and carriages. Everyone with a body has two servants, his hands and his feet and they will serve his will exactly."
Kamono Chome, twelfth century poet
"Carry not what we can use but only what we can't do without."
William Least Heat Moon, from River Horse
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
John Muir
“I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.”
Henry David Thoreau
"My feet is my only carriage and so I've got to push on through."
Bob Marley
The man pulling radishes
pointed my way
with a radish.
Kobayashi Issa, Japanese Haiku master
"...we have a special fondness for riding a train. This we do in the good, old style, with a box of lunch, a time-table and a book to read hoping there will be a good, long wait somewhere."
Harlan Hubbard, from Shanty Boat
Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.
Le Corbusier
A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than than the motorized tourist can in a hundred miles.
Edward Abbey
I had pared my possessions down to almost nothing - a survival kit, that's all. I had a filthy old sarong for hot weather and a jumper and woolly socks for cold weather and I had something to sleep on and something to eat and drink out of and that was all I needed. I felt free and untrammeled and light and I wanted to stay that way. If I could only just hold onto it. I didn't want to get caught up in the madness out there.
Robyn Davidson, from Tracks
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