I find that the three truly great times for thinking thoughts are when I am standing in the shower, sitting on the john, or walking. And the greatest of these, by far, is walking.
Colin FletcherGod is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satanโor man to create both.
Colin FletcherDetails of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.
Colin FletcherI do what I do instinctively, and thatโs me. If you like me, thatโs fine; if you donโt like me then donโt watch me.
Colin FletcherBy walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of simplicity. In this new simplicity you soon find that you have become, in a new and surer sense, and integral part of the simple, complex world you are walking through. And then you are really walking.
Colin Fletcher