We are happy to observe an increasing frequency of these pedestrian tours: to walk, is, beyond all comparison, the most independent and advantageous mode of travelling; Smelfungus and Mundungus may pursue their journey as they...

I walked slowly on, without envying my companions on horseback: for I could sit down upon an inviting spot, climb to the edge of a precipice, or trace a torrent by its sound. I descended...

I hope that the examples I have given have gone some way towards demonstrating that pedestrian touring in the later 1780s and the 1790s was not a matter of a few ‘isolated affairs’, but was...

[William] Coxe expresses…both the pedestrian’s advantage of complete freedom of movement, and the inspiring effect of the combination of continual change of scene with maximum time for appreciation that characterises the mobile gaze of the...

…I shall let [Anne] Wallace put the case herself, at what I think is necessary length:’As travel in general becomes physically easier, faster, and less expensive, more people want and are able to arrive at...

[Robert] Newell’s recommendation of walking is also interesting:’The best way undoubtedly of seeing a country is on foot. It is the safest, and most suited to every variety of road; it will often enable you...

To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that...

You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.

I use my windshield wipers when it’s not raining. I’m an umbrellaless pedestrian, and I can’t tell the difference between Starbucks’ coffee and a mud puddle in a cup.

We are leading as thorough a study of ‘alienation’s positive pole’ as of its negative pole. As a consequence of our diagnosis of the poverty of wealth, we are able to establish the world map...

We’re going nowhere, ” Joan said grimly. Traffic on the narrow street was at a complete standstill.A chill settled in Sophie’s stomach: it was the appalling fear that her brother was going to die.”Sidewalk,” Nicholas...

…the assessment of psychological drift, that is the way in which an undirected pedestrian tends to move about in a particular quarter of the town, tending to establish natural connections between places, the zones of...

First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g., by a wall that prevents one from going further),...

Travel became distinguishable from pain and began to be regarded as an intellectual pleasur…These factors–the voluntariness of departure, the freedom implicit in the indeterminancies of mobility, the pleasure of travel free from necessity, the notion...