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Top ten things walking has taught me: #3

12/09/2017 By Elaine Hopkins Leave a Comment

Fourth century Greek philosopher Diogenes once said "it is solved by walking" ("solvitur ambulando").  It was his response to the question of whether motion is real.  He got up and walked.  Diogenes sounds like my kind of man; well, apart from the living in a barrel.  The words have since come to mean that the answer to a problem can usually be found by a practical experiment.  But I like to interpret them more literally because I find them to be true.  Walking has solved so many things for me, … [Read more...] about Top ten things walking has taught me: #3

Filed Under: What walking teaches us Tagged With: Diogenes, problems, solutions, solvitur ambulando, Walking

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