David Douglas - The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, f

The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.

- David Douglas

source: David Douglas (1987). “Wilderness sojourn: notes in the desert silence”, Harper San Francisco

topic: Moving, Balance, Next, Lure, Sauntering, Slowing