In his celebrated essay “Walking,” Henry David Thoreau reflected on how he preferred to do his traveling close to home, how he never tired of his surroundings and always found something new or surprising in the Massachusetts landscape. “There is in fact a sort of harmony discoverable between the capabilities of the landscape within a circle of ten miles’ radius, or the limits of an afternoon walk, and the threescore years and ten of human life,” he wrote. “It will never become quite familiar to you.” To live in a restless world requires a certain restlessness in oneself. So long as things
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