Walking The Landscape

Mens sana…

That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. — Jahumpa Lahiri

Fotherington-Thomas, from Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Seattle’s *Down with Skool*

Given that at the moment the walk exists only in our imagination, a fair amount of the preparation has consisted of reading, not just about the End to End walk itself, but about walking in general, and about connected topics … like hedgerows and clouds.

The Map is not the Territory

A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness— Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity

Why Land’s End to John O’Groats?

One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things — Henry Miller