“Back home, Huxley drew from this experience to compose a series of audacious attacks against the Romantic love of wilderness. The worship of nature, he wrote, is "a modern, artificial, and somewhat precarious invention of refined minds." Byron and Wordsworth… — Robert Moor Copy Share Image
“Among trail-builders, it is axiomatic that when hikers get tired, hikers get selfish.” — Robert Moor Copy Share Image
“We move through this world on paths laid down long before we are born.” — Robert Moor Copy Share Image
“Back home, Huxley drew from this experience to compose a series of audacious attacks against the Romantic love of wilderness. The worship of nature,… — Robert Moor Copy Share Image
“Left to their own devices, people unwittingly redesigned their cities precisely as ants would.” — Robert Moor Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, moving with the flow, rather than racing through it, gets everyone in the swarm to their various destinations more quickly.” — Robert Moor Copy Share Image
“Having grown up in those woods, Walker knew that for many people, the wilderness did not represent an otherworldly sanctum of ‘biodiversity,’ as it… — Robert Moor Copy Share Image
“From trains to automobiles to airplanes, each time the speed of connection quickens, travelers have expressed a sense of growing alienation from the land… — Robert Moor Copy Share Image
