{"quotes":[{"text":"You lift your head, you’re on your way, but really just to be walking, to be out of doors. That’s it, that’s all, and you’re there. Outdoors is our element: the exact sensation of living there.","author":"Frédéric Gros","tags":["adventure","art","awe","beauty","discovery","earth","explore","freedom","fresh-air","get-outside","hikes","hiking","joy","movement","nature","our-planet","outdoors","outdoors-church","outside","peace","philosophy","pilgrim","pilgrimage","poetry","serenity","visual-poetry","walking","walks","wonder"],"id":1460,"author_id":"Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Gros"},{"text":"I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.","author":"Mackenzie Crook","tags":["world","outdoors","natural "],"id":5817,"author_id":"Mackenzie+Crook"},{"text":"You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.","author":"Fennel Hudson","tags":["adventure","camping","escape","freedom","holiday","outdoors"],"id":6725,"author_id":"Fennel+Hudson"},{"text":"Although the deepest of snow in living memory lay upon the ground, the sun was shining and Aurelia breathed easiest out of doors. The four walls of any given room could not give her the horizons she longed for - horizons she could measure with her eyes and strive to conquer with her own two legs. She was like a wild animal, Cook always said.","author":"Tracy Rees","tags":["adventure","nature","outdoors"],"id":10575,"author_id":"Tracy+Rees"},{"text":"The word 'landmark' is from the old English 'landmearc', meaning 'an object in the landscape which, by its conspicuousness, serves as a guide in the direction of one's course.","author":"Robert Macfarlane","tags":["direction","landmark","nature","outdoors","path"],"id":20261,"author_id":"Robert+Macfarlane"},{"text":"So wondrous wild, the whole might seemthe scenery of a fairy dream.","author":"Walter Scott","tags":["dream","outdoors","scenery","wild","wilderness","wondrous"],"id":28878,"author_id":"Walter+Scott"},{"text":"This time, there’s no question of freeing yourself from artifice to taste simple joys. Instead there is the promise of meeting a freedom head-on as an outer limit of the self and of the human, an internal overflowing of a rebellious Nature that goes beyond you. Walking can provoke these excesses: surfeits of fatigue that make the mind wander, abundances of beauty that turn the soul over, excesses of drunkenness on the peaks, the high passes (where the body explodes). Walking ends by awakening this rebellious, archaic part of us: our appetites become rough and uncompromising, our impulses inspired. Because walking puts us on the vertical axis of life: swept along by the torrent that rushes just beneath us. What I mean is that by walking you are not going to meet yourself. By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history. Being someone is all very well for smart parties where everyone is telling their story, it’s all very well for psychologists’ consulting rooms. But isn’t being someone also a social obligation which trails in its wake – for one has to be faithful to the self-portrait – a stupid and burdensome fiction? The freedom in walking lies in not being anyone; for the walking body has no history, it is just an eddy in the stream of immemorial life.","author":"Frédéric Gros","tags":["adventure","art","awe","beauty","discovery","earth","explore","freedom","fresh-air","get-outside","hikes","hiking","joy","movement","nature","our-planet","outdoors","outdoors-church","outside","peace","philosophy","pilgrim","pilgrimage","poetry","serenity","visual-poetry","walking","walks","wonder"],"id":28968,"author_id":"Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Gros"},{"text":"...Landscape is a work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock.","author":"simon schma","tags":["landscape","memory","nature","outdoors","scenery"],"id":38872,"author_id":"simon+schma"},{"text":"I am extremely happy walking on the downs...I like to have space to spread my mind out in.","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["nature","outdoors","thinking","walking","writing"],"id":47930,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"We are but faint-hearted crusaders...Our expeditions are but tours...Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walks, perchance, in the spirit of stirring adventure, never to return, --prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms...If you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["adventure","outdoors","walk","walking"],"id":50127,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":86,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}