Rebecca Solnit Hiking Quotations

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an alleory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest).