Outside Reading
December 1st
“My third – and most
lasting- response was one of gratitude: that the trail exists, that it has survived megalopolis, a motorized population,
and ready-mixed concrete.” – By Ronald Fisher in The Appalachian Trail. Page 9.
This quote made me appreciate the trail and its effect on
people. I’m not a nature person. I don’t like sleeping on the ground. So it’s
hard for me to understand long distance trail hikers. However, I do believe it
is amazing how trails and trail culture manages to survive even as technology encroaches
on modern day life. I actually think modern life has revitalized the trails.
People need an escape from technology. Technology has made escaping from work
and obligations and even having a moment to yourself nearly impossible. People
need time to reconnect with themselves and the trails provide this necessary
escape. We need nature. Not just in that we need trees to give us oxygen to
breath but we need the solitude and beauty in our lives that nature provides.
So while its amazing trails such as the Appalachian have survived
mechanization. I believe that these natural landmarks are more essential to the
human psychic than we realized.
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