“The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as
it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours …but it is itself the
enterprise and adventure of the day.”
“But possibly the day will come when the land will be partitioned off into
so-called pleasure-grounds, in which a few will take a narrow and
exclusive pleasure only,—when fences shall be multiplied, and man-traps
and other engines invented to confine men to the public road, and walking
over the surface of God’s earth shall be construed to mean trespassing on
some gentleman’s grounds. To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to
exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. Let us improve our
opportunities, then, before the evil days come.”
Henry David Thoreau “Caminar” Interzona, Buenos Aires, 2016.