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Quotes · Rory Stewart

“Our minds, our souls, our bodies work most efficiently, most profoundly, most happily, when moving and, in particular, walking. Modern civilization imprisons us in offices, and treats tramps, Gypsies, mystics, and nomads as misfits. But in fact these wanderers are in tune with an ancient and more natural form of human life. It is homes and cities and sedentary jobs that are unnatural. To find yourself, you must travel.”

– Rory Stewart, Introduction to The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin, Penguin Books, 2012, pgs. xi-xii.

From volume X of the file · Book · 21st century

Themes: the body · exploration & travel · liberalism & modernity