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* My footsteps make the mark. My legs carry me across the country. It's like a way of measuring the world. I love that connection to my own body. It's to me the world. Richard long. interview by Higgins, Charlotte. The Guardian, June 15, 2012 | * My footsteps make the mark. My legs carry me across the country. It's like a way of measuring the world. I love that connection to my own body. It's to me the world. Richard long. interview by Higgins, Charlotte. The Guardian, June 15, 2012 | ||
- | * After the rains, the air smells fresh with ozone sap, and leaf litter, and my senses are alive with curiosity. | + | * After the rains, the air smells fresh with ozone sap, and leaf litter, and my senses are alive with curiosity. |
- | * 'Sit as little a s possible: do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement - in which muscles do not also revel' | + | * 'Sit as little a s possible: do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement - in which muscles do not also revel' |
* Walking at ones own pace creates an unadulterated feedback loop between the rhythm of [one' | * Walking at ones own pace creates an unadulterated feedback loop between the rhythm of [one' | ||
* By walking barefoot we can start to feel our environment again. Louisse Spisser | * By walking barefoot we can start to feel our environment again. Louisse Spisser | ||
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* the walk to the end of the world that Alexander the Great wept from inability to complete | * the walk to the end of the world that Alexander the Great wept from inability to complete | ||
* the wandering scholars and troubadours of the European Middle Ages | * the wandering scholars and troubadours of the European Middle Ages | ||
- | * Mao' | + | * Mao' |
- | * | + | * the man who ritually walked the lenght, from end to end, of every streetin Mahattan. http:// |
+ | and so on | ||
+ | walking just aas a motion, as process, as a going on in life, a continuum, a mode of selfexpression or dicovery or exploration, | ||
+ | * The prostrating walk in Chine Buddhism. The monk enters a concentration or one pint-state as much as possible, faces in the direction he wishes to traverse, and lies flat on his face on the ground; when he gets up he plants his feet where his face had been when he was lying down, gathers his concentration again, and so on. It's much like the movement of an inch-worm, except that with each prostration he advances about five feet. For centuries Buddhist monks developing their vipassana concentration, | ||
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+ | The Graeta Wll Walk was based in the idea of the artists walking towards each other, in theirr early work, the pair walked toward each other over and over again with great physical concentration across a small space. in the great wall the while they converged across a fast distance, their walking invlved perhaps even more mental than physical effort. | ||
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+ | * Stanly Brouwn: takes walking, a man's step as his point of departure. the human measure against which all else can be compared. | ||
+ | check it out! plus pictures. | ||
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