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Walking is an inefficient way to get from one place to another, and thus a good way of thinking about time.
- Some years ago I decided to walk to work every day instead of driving. It changed getting to work into a pleasurable experience--no traffic jams or parking hassles--and I would stop now and then for coffee and a chat with a friend. More important, it changed my perception of distance. My office was twenty blocks from my home, about a thirty-minute walk. I noticed that walking that distance was extremely easy. I hadn't known that my previous conception of twenty blocks was one which technology had created. My knowledge was car-knowledge. I had become mentally and physically a car-person. Now I was connecting distance and range to my body, making the conception personal rather than mechanical, outside myself.
- Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
See also my review of Rebecca Solnit's book Wanderlust.