I open the book Walking: One Step at a Time by Erling Kagge to these words:
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that one saves time travelling only two hours from one point to another instead of spending eight hours on the same journey. While this holds up mathematically, my experience is the opposite: time passes more quickly when I increase the speed of travel. My speed and time accelerate in parallel. It is as if the duration of a single hour becomes less than a clock-hour. When I am in a rush, I hardly pay attention to anything at all."
He goes on to write that one's sense of space gets smaller with an increased pace. He compares it to driving toward a mountain rather than walking to it. Walking, "The mountain up ahead, which slowly changes as you draw closer, feels like an intimate friend by the time you've arrived. Your eyes, ears, nose, shoulders, stomach and legs speak to the mountain, and the mountain replies. Time stretches out, independent of minutes and hours."
"And this is precisely the secret held by all those who go by foot: life is prolonged when you walk. Walking expands time rather than collapses it."
Circling the top of Mt. Tam
Making a Treasure Map with a trail of water
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