A Walking Life

For readers of On Trails, this is an incisive, utterly engaging exploration of walking: how it is fundamental to our being human, how we''ve designed it out of our lives, and how it is essential t ...

For readers of On Trails, this is an incisive, utterly engaging exploration of walking: how it is fundamental to our being human, how we''ve designed it out of our lives, and how it is essential that we reembrace it."I''m going for a walk." How often has this phrase been uttered by someone with a heart full of anger or sorrow? Or as an invitation, a precursor to a declaration of love? Our species and its predecessors have been bipedal walkers for at least six million years; by now, we take this seemingly arbitrary motion for granted. Yet how many of us still really walk in our everyday lives?D