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and walking for me the two most pleasurable things in life, I really loved Kagge's approach, A small book for a quiet afternoon maybe after an extensive walk in the morning, What do you want more in life
PS: The audio version is great as well, Ik probeer iedere dag een wandelingetje te maken, het liefste 's ochtends voor het werk én 's avonds na het eten.
Het lukt me niet iedere dag, maar als ik dit boekje lees dan weet ik waarom ik het zo fijn vindt.
Even wandelen brengt rust in je hoofd, Gedachten komen en gaan, soms bedenk je ergens een oplossing voor, soms is het lekker om er even uit te zijn en te genieten van je omgeving.
Ik ben erg blij dat we in zo'n groene buurt wonen en dat ik parkjes op wandelafstand heb,
Wat ik leuk vind in dit boekje is dat Erling het ook heeft over naar je werk wandelen in plaats van met de auto gaan.
Nou hebben wij Nederlanders daar ook de tussenoplossing fiets voor, wat wel snel is maar ook de frisse lucht en fysieke beweging van wandelen heeft.
Ideaal, als je er zo over nadenkt :
Dit eerste deel van het boekje laat heel goed zien dat je niet een natuurgebied in hoeft om alle voordelen en fijne kanten van het wandelen te ervaren, en dat vind ik een prettige en goede om op papier te zien staan.
Tot op dit punt in het boek zou ik hetgeven, Maar ik gaf het. Waarom
Het is logisch dat Erling doorgaat naar langere wandeltochten, als in meerdere dagen en overnachten in de natuur enzo.
Logisch, mooi, inspirerend.
Maar ik vind het jammer dat hij voor het afsluiten van het boek niet teruggaat naar kleine dagelijkse wandelingen.
Ik blijf daardoor achter met het gevoel dat ik pas écht wandelen kan ervaren als ik de ruige natuur opzoek.
Met het uithebben van het boek mis ik de klik met de eerste helft en de motivatie om gewoon minstensx per dag een wandelingetje te maken al is het maar een kwartiertje.
Dat vind ik jammer, Erling zou meer met het boekje kunnen bereiken als hij aan het einde die dagelijkse terugkoppeling weer zou maken.
Dat vind ik
zo een gemis en jammer aan het boek, datnog teveel voelt voor de kater die ik er aan over heb gehouden.
En ja ik wil later een hond, dan heb ik helemaal een reden om te blijven wandelen dagelijks.
Lijkt me heel leuk en fijn, buiten de gezelligheid van een huisdier, En nee ik neem er nu nog geen want ik woon in een flat, niet op de begane grond en zonder lift.
Dat is niet goed voor de rug van de hond, dus even geduld hebben totdat we een eigen huisje hebben : A delightful little book, told in a series of short observations centered around the theme of walking.
The author is a Norseman who has walked to the North and South Pole and climbed Everest, He is not egotistical or brash, he is quite observant and subdued, It is the type of book that you could pick up and read a short section and have something to ponder for the day or for weeks or in some cases even for a lifetime.
As a deep lover of walking, that is what drew me to this book, and with the Kagge's power of observation, his wide and profound view of life, and his deep knowing that it is all just about putting one foot in front of the other and the next step, there is a lot to take in from this very easy and enjoyable read.
Highly recommended for philosophy fans, walkers, and armchair gurus,.Such a simple thing, walking, simple for some, but not all, One never knows when one picks up a book, what they will find, I certainly never expected to find so much meaning in a small book on walking, Not knowing that I was opening a book that I would come to cherish, one that held so much meaning.
An author who has on foot the three poles, the North Pole, the South Pole and the summit of Mt.
Everest, definitely has to know the benefits of walking, Of course my goals are so far from his it is almost laughable, I simply want to feel better, Baby steps, and this book has many such steps, The many benefits of walking, short walks, slow walks, letting everything else drain away, healing in nature, mindless thoughts.
I bought this book, found myself marking so many quotes it would be silly not to, I'll share just a few,
"All my walks have been different, but looking back I see one common denominator: inner silence, Walking and silence belong together, Silence is as abstract as walking is concrete, "
"And this is precisely the secret held by all those who go by foot life is prolonged when you walk.
Walking expands time rather than collapses it, "
"There is a thrill to not knowing what you may encounter as you walk, Your thoughts become more restricted, No one who wants to get hold of you knows where to find you, You are not vicariously living through other people, For one fleeting moment you can forget the rest of the world, Past and future have no role as you walk, I've had this little book on my stack for well over a year, and am so glad I picked it up as one of my finalreads! I loved it so much.
This book in translation from the original Norwegian is a little bit personal story, a little bit philosophical meditation on just thathow walking is grounding and expansive.
I took a ridiculous number of notes in my book journal which I shared with the Modern Mrs, Darcy Book Club in our Best Book of the Year event, along with all the quotes I had to read out loud to my family.
A fine book. Many various, and sometimes surprising, connections between Kagge's observations, quotes from philosophers and fellow walkers, and his own walking adventures.
Does leave one wanting at times as he is referencing his solo trip to the south pole in one paragraph and then onto a philosopher in the next, never returning to his solo trip.
But it seems that's the idea, Myriad connections without heft and depth which become overbearing,
As a fellow walker and hiker and biker, sometimes of the longdistance variety, several ideas resonated:
"I wear myself out because I want to, not because I have to.
. . When my strength is reduced, I no longer have the resources to think about much, and that's when the smells, the sounds and the ground seem to draw much closer to my experience".
Similarly: "The longer I walk, the less I differentiate between my body, my mind, and my surroundings.
The external and the eternal worlds overlap, I am no longer an observer looking at nature, but the entirety of my body is involved",
And finally more broadly speaking, more philosophical, Kagge sites MerleauPonty, a French philosopher: "There is no inner person, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.
"
I am never more out of my head and knitted to the world and universe and nature than when I am walking or riding long miles.
Unfortunately, I didn't like this book as much as Silence: in the Age of Noise, I love walking and it's a part of me ever since I remember, so I was really looking forward to reading this book.
However, while Silence had a lot of general chapters, I felt like Walking: One Step at a Time focused more on the author's experiences and his memories from his travels.
Obviously, it's okay, but I missed more general, thought provoking chapters about walking, Since the beginning of the pandemic, I began to take daily walks, My good friends suggested this book to me and so I ordered it from my local library, I believe a lot of other people were also interested as it took about three months for the book to come in.
That day I walked over to the library taking aboutminutes round trip,
Published in, translated into English in, Norwegian explorer and well known walker, wrote a short book reflecting on the simple task of walking.
A lot of people through history have commented on walking, Some samples:
“Walking is the best medicine, ”
Hippocrates
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk every day I walk myself into a state of wellbeing and walk away from every illness.
”
Soren Kierkegaard
“As you walk, your way closes,
And when you look back
You see the path which your feet
Will never more tread.
”
Antonio Machado
If you are interested in walking, this is a good book to inspire you.
Yes, he conquered the three poles, North, South and Everest, and being Norwegian, walking was part of his youth.
Walking is good for your body and mind, He warns about societies that have become more slothful and inactive in the last decade, citing from the latest statistics pointing out how so few children do physical activities anymore.
We live in fast society, So why not slow it down, Go outside and take a walk, As Milan Kundera suggests in his book, Slowness, “There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
” Walking is good for clearing the mind,
Of course, in many self help books, he suggest that one can go further, succeed and conquer what you want in life.
This might be best to describe the author, Erling Kagge,
Or you can just simply walk for the goodness of it, I like that. And in the spirit of the book, I did walk back to the library to drop it off,
Walking is travel at a speed that humans are comfortable with, you can take everything in as you pass by.
The act of us walking on two feet, upright and able to observe what is around us is a movement that is millennia old.
We as a species though are not walking as much as we used to, the modern transport options are so easy and we lose that sense of time.
The ability to walk, to put one foot in front of the other, invented us,
Erling Kagge has loved walking for as long as he can remember, when he was growing up in Norway his parents did not own a car so he had to walk.
He walked to the North Pole in his midtwenties and then walked to the South Pole, solo, Now in charge of a publishing house, he still walks when he can and wherever he happens to be.
For him it is the best way to discover a place, find what makes it tick and to feel the pulse of it.
I learned that the spiritual was the opposite of the material, but in the woods these two are not opposites they are equals.
To walk reflects this.
Walking not only helps our physical health, but can benefit our mind too, Research has shown that time spent away from a screen, regardless if it is a walk along city streets or heading up over a moor works wonders for your mind too.
This is a good companion volume to his other book on silence, Both are small acts of defiance against the fastpaced, relentless and loud world, I really enjoyed this too, I really like his sparse writing style and philosophical outlook on life, Stunning cover too. Well worth reading
Iedomāsimies, ka ūdens ir laiks, kas rit, Ka šeit, kur mēs stāvam, upe ir tagadne, tad kur pēc tavām domām ir atrodas nākotne
Nākotne atrodas lejup pa straumei no vietas, kur mes stāvam.
Laiks kas pienāk, seko līdzi ūdens straumei tālāk lejā,
Nepareizi!
Ja vieta, kur tu stāvi ir tagadne, tad pagātne ir ūdens kas aizplūdis tev garām un ko tu vairs nekad neredzēsi.
Nākotne ir ūdens, kas plūst no augšas, līdzi nesdams briesmas, priekus un un pārsteigumus.
Lai kāds būtu liktenis tas mīt kalnos, augstu virs mūsu galvām,
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Activities promoting a return to nature seem particularly in vogue lately, and this is just another in the long line of books about walking that I see appearing in bookshops with ever increasing frequency.
Or is it
Granted, I haven't read those "other" books about walking, but is there a better person to pen a book on the subject than the first fellow to have walked to the North Pole, the South Pole, AND the summit of Everest I mean, Jesus Christ.
It's a good thing I just read Matt Haig's sitelinkReasons to Stay Alive because after reading Erling Kagge's biography I feel like I haven't done much with my life.
I first heard about this book back in April, I was stuck in traffic on the way to my favorite used bookstore because where else would I be headed in Orlando, Florida.
The radio was tuned to the local NPR National Public Radio station and Erling Kagge's accentedEnglish suddenly crackled on the car's speakers.
Some of Kagge's answers that day struck me as a bit too "zen", In response to the interviewer's question of how he prepared for his hike to the South Pole, Kagge answered that it was simply a matter of putting "one foot in front of the other".
The interviewer scoffed at this, as did I when listening, but I think I get Kagge's point now, "One foot in front of the other" isn't necessarily to be taken literally, but has more to do with the mental state one has to have to set out on such a hike in the first place.
Or perhaps I'm just fooling myself,
I fully understand the health benefits that come with routinely walking, but I wasn't as clear on the mental and emotional benefits.
I'm not sure how I could have missed this, as just about every famous person throughout history is referenced in "Walking" as being a devotee.
There's Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard who, in a letter to his sisterinlaw, writes, "Above all, do not lose your desire to walk every day I walk myself into a state of wellbeing and walk away from every illness.
"
Then there's American poet and essayist Henry David Thoreau, who writes, "I think I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least and it is commonly more than that sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.
"
Of people who don't walk regularly, Thoreau writes that they "deserve some credit for not having all committed suicide long ago.
"
Greek physician Hippocrates notes that "if you are in a bad mood, go for a walk" and, if you are still in a bad mood, "go for another walk".
FellowGreek philosopher Diogenes says, in reply to the idea that movement does not exist, "solvitor ambulando" it is solved by walking.
Others Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs were avid walkers who reportedly got some of their best ideas when strolling outdoors.
Kagge notes that walking is connected to our bodies and emotions even in our language,
Motion, emotion, Move, moved.
Kagge also emphasizes that the way we walk often says a lot about us, Do we take timid steps, or do we stride confidently Do we rush forward hunched or do we stand straight as we saunter
In his extraordinary novel sitelinkAusterlitz, W.
G. Sebald writes that, following the Germaninvasion, the residents of Prague "walked more slowly, like sonambulists, as if they no longer knew where they were going.
"
At this point I recalled something a friend of mine told me a few years ago, Her brother, she said, had been mugged three times in the past few months simply walking back to their London home.
My friend's family lived in a relatively safe area of London, but having never lived in London myself, I enquired as to whether such muggings were "normal".
"Not at all," she told me, "It's the way he walks, He's hunched and constantly looking over his shoulder, It's obvious to anyone who sees him that he's terrified, "
Before reading this I had never seriously thought about walking before or, rather, I had never thought of walking as a serious endeavor.
It's so easy to take the ability to walk for granted, to not consider the fact that millions of individuals lack this seemingly basic ability.
And yet the majority of us don't make the most of this ability,
We desire to sit day in, day out, and our kids are sitelinkincreasingly preferring to spend their free time inside rather than out.
Walking, it seems, is something we practice in our daily lives less and less, Nevermind hiking to the South Pole, what about going around the block
Some places are worse than others.
Most of us in America have been conditioned to view walking as a last resort, as something you have to do rather than something you want to do.
After all, why walk when you can drive
Even leaving aside the obvious environmental and health benefits, walking has so much to offer.
As Kagge writes, because so much in our lives is fast paced and walking is such a slow undertaking, "it is among the most radical things you can do.
" Furthermore, "walking expands time rather than collapses it, "
I'm about to head out on something of a walk myself, along themile Oregon Coast Trail.
I'm sure I can't even comprehend at this point the challenges I'm likely to come across in doing so.
But I fully intend to "put one foot in front of the other" until I've reached the end of the trail.
It's not the South Pole, it's just a walk, still a radical act in today's world, Because maybe it's not taking the road less traveled that matters as much as the way you're taking that road.
Maybe the thing that most drives me to walk is that I could drive, .