7 Quotes by Robert Moor

In walking, we acquire more of less.

I was discovering that this process works both ways: a journey is never simply the act of gaining a new perspective, but also the experience of being newly seen.

Complete freedom is not what a trail offers. Quite the opposite; a trail is a tactful reduction of options.

We move through this world on paths laid down long before we are born.

We are born to wander through a chaos field. And yet we do not become hopelessly lost, because each walker who comes before us leaves behind a trace for us to follow.

There are, it is often said by the more ecumenical prophets, many paths up the mountain. So long as it helps a person navigate the world and seek out what is good, a path, by definition, has value.

From trains to automobiles to airplanes, each time the speed of connection quickens, travelers have expressed a sense of growing alienation from the land blurring past our windows. In the same vein, many people currently worry that digital technology is making us less connected to the people and things in our immediate environment.