When I stop, I cease to think my mind only works with my legs. And Rousseau wrote in Confessions, “I can only meditate when I am walking. “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking,” wrote Nietzsche in Twilight of the Idols. Cranberry Lake Campground in New York is in one of the largest remote areas remaining in the state. As French academic Frederic Gros writes in A Philosophy of Walking, it’s simply “the best way to go more slowly than any other method that has ever been found.” Jefferson walked to clear his mind, while Thoreau and Nietzsche, like Aristotle, walked to think. It has long been believed that walking in restorative settings could lead not only to physical vigor but to mental clarity and even bursts of genius, inspiration (with its etymology in breathing) and overall sanity. This book explores the science behind what poets and philosophers have known for eons: place matters. Augustine, but well before that Aristotle thought and taught while walking the open-air parapets of the Lyceum. “The idea of solvitur ambulando (in walking it will be solved) has been around since St. The Nature Fix is a beautifully written, thoroughly enjoyable exposition of a major principle of human life now supported by evidence in biology, psychology, and medicine.-Edward O.
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