Walking

To my college Philosophy professor who encouraged us to push back against the heavy doors of society, and who invited us to his cabin in the woods to read Thoreau around a bonfire and to find the rhythm of his verse in hand drums, and to Charley Epperson, wherever he is, who had the courage to live permanently off the grid. --Eve

..."We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-- prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again--if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man--then you are ready for a walk...."
--Henry David Thoreau

"I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil--to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that. I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks--who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering...."
http://www.readprint.com/work-1430/Henry-David-Thoreau
http://www.mensjournal.com/feature/M162/M162_TheCultofChrisMcCandless.html