“Sit as little as possible; do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement — in which the muscles do not also revel. All prejudices emanate from the bowels.” – Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

 

Enlightenment Philosophy:

J.J. Rousseau – Reveries of a Solitary Walker

 

Early American Philosophy:

R.W. Emerson – Nature

H.D. Thoreau – Walking

H.D. Thoreau – Autumnal Tints

Mary Austin – The Land of Little Rain

A. Leopold – Thinking Like a Mountain

J. Muir – A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf

 

Existentialist Philosophy:

F. Nietzsche – The Wanderer and his Shadow (From Human, All Too Human)

 

Eastern Philosophies:

Various – The Dao of Hiking

T. N. Hanh – The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation

 

Native American Philosophies:

M.T. Garrett – Every Footstep is the Journey on Our Sacred Trail

Robin Wall Kimmerer – Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Robin Wall Kimmerer – Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants

 

Contemporary Philosophies:

J. Francis - Planetwalker

Alison Hawthorne Deming – Writing the Sacred into the Real

Carolyn Finney – Black Faces. White Spaces.