…I know these things have their uses, and use them-a truck, a computer, a modem-myself, but I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival. I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought or thoughtfulness
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| — | Rebecca Solnit (Wanderlust) |
