Footnotes Quotes

“Running is analogue. It is hunter-gatherer. It is Palaeo. It is linear. It is long-form thought. It is an uninterrupted conversation with yourself. It is a journey back through modernity to your body. It is a way out of technology. It is a way to be free.”
― Vybarr Cregan-Reid, Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human

“Running, like literature, like arts, helps you to remember and re-experience some of the impossible strangeness of what it means to be who and what we are, of what it means to be human.”
― Vybarr Cregan-Reid, Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human

“Running changes who you are, and how you see, feel and sense the outside world – how can you still be you if you run?”
― Vybarr Cregan-Reid, Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human

“The Claude glass was also known as the ‘black mirror’ and was responsible for a number of minor mishaps. This is where history catches up with us. Our version of the black mirror, carried in the pocket, used by millions to ‘see’ rock concerts, fireworks displays and sunsets, is the smartphone. We look through it to make sure we are catching grainy footage of the wondrous thing we are missing.”
― Vybarr Cregan-Reid, Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human

“I look round for trees or walls that might be able to give me an indication of north from the growth patterns of moss,”
― Vybarr Cregan-Reid, Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human