Quotes by : Frédéric Gros

None of your knowledge, your reading, your connections will be of any use here: two legs suffice, and....

Walking: it hits you at first like an immense breathing in the ears. You feel the silence as if it were....

Perhaps the itinerant monks called ‘Gyrovagues’ were especially responsible for promoting this view....

And as we know from the pilgrimage diaries of Swami Ramdas, it is when we renounce everything that everything....

Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk....

forest paths – flat labyrinths – and gentle plains invite the walker’s body to softness, to languor.....

Slowness means cleaving perfectly to time, so closely that the seconds fall one by one, drop by drop....

the joy of walking and feeling the body advancing ‘like a man alone’; the fullness of feeling alive.....

Thoreau: ‘The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing....

An author who composes while walking, on the other hand, is free from such bonds; his thought is not....