“It was…the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make.
In every way, a walk to remember.”
Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember
Landon Carter, Chapter 13, p. 237
Source: 1990s, A Walk to Remember (1999)
“Most of the time walking is merely practical, the unconsidered locomotive means between two sites. To make walking into an investigation, a ritual, a meditation, is a special subset of walking, physiologically like and philosophically unlike the way the mail carrier brings the mail and the office worker reaches the train.”
Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001)
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