"The
path is an extension of walking, the
places set aside for walking are monuments to that pursuit, and walking is a
mode of
making the world as well as being in it. Thus the walking
body can be
traced in the
places it has made;
paths,
parks, and
sidewalks are
traces of the acting out of
imagination and
desire;
walking sticks,
shoes,
maps,
canteens, and backpacks are
further material results of that
desire. Walking shares with making and
working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the
mind with the
world, of
knowing the world through the body and the body through the world."
Rebecca Solnit,
Wanderlust: A History of Walking, NY: Penguin, 2000, 29.
