On Walking

Where does it start? Muscles tense. One leg a pillar, holding the body upright between the earth and sky. The other a pendulum, swinging from behind. Heel touches down. The whole weight of the body rolls forward onto the ball of the foot. The big toe pushes off, and the delicately balanced weight of the body shifts again. The legs reverse position. It starts with a step and then another step and then another that add up like taps on a drum to a rhythm, the rhythm of walking. The most obvious and the most obscure thing in the world, this walking that wanders so readily into religion, philosophy, landscape, urban policy, anatomy, allegory, and heartbreak.

Rebecca Solnit "wanderlust: a history of walking"

Links to more 'on walking'

GPS Links

GIS from Wikipedia

About GPS

A Google Maps walking tour of Keene, NH

GPS Drawing

Bio Mapping

Walking as Art

Walking as Art

Richard Long Official Web Site

Hamish Fulton __ Walking Artist

Janet Cardiff

Donna Marie McCabe's Thesis on Walking

Melissa Brookhart Beyer & Jill Dawsey

Writing on Walking

William Wordsworth Walking

Walking by Henry David Thoreau

Walking Quotes

About Walking

Walkinginfo.org

Walking for Fitness

Walkable Communities

Books on Walking and Mapping

On Foot: A History of Walking

The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicultural Society

You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination

Other Walkers