On n’est jamais personne pour les collines et les grandes frondaisons. On n’est plus ni un rôle, ni un statut, pas même un personnage, mais un corps,… - Frédéric Gros

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On n’est jamais personne pour les collines et les grandes frondaisons. On n’est plus ni un rôle, ni un statut, pas même un personnage, mais un corps, un corps qui ressent la pointe des cailloux sur les chemins, la caresse des hautes herbes et la fraîcheur du vent. Quand on marche, le monde n’a plus ni présent, ni futur. Il n’y a plus que le cycle des matins et des soirs. Toujours à faire la même chose tout le jour : marcher.

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Frédéric Gros (born 30 November 1965) is a French philosopher.

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Il y a le silence des forêts. Les bouquets d’arbres forment autour de nous des murs mouvants, incertains. On marche sur des chemins tracés, des bandes de terre étroites qui serpentent. On perd vite l’orientation. Le silence alors est frémissant, inquiet.

Walking is the best way to go more slowly than any other method that has ever been found. To walk, you need to start with two legs. The rest is optional. If you want to go faster, then don’t walk, do something else: drive, slide or fly. Don’t walk. And when you are walking, there is only one sort of performance that counts: the brilliance of the sky, the splendour of the landscape. Walking is not a sport.
Once on his feet, though, man does not stay where he is.

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First of all, there is the suspensive freedom that comes by walking, even a simple short stroll: throwing of the burden of cares, forgetting business for a time. You choose to leave the once behind, go out, stroll around, think about other things. With a longer excursion of several days, the process of self-liberation is accentuated: you escape the constraints of work, throw of the yoke of routine.

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