The best thing is to walk. We should follow the Chinese poet Li Po in 'the hardships of travel and the many branchings of the way'. For life is a journey through a wilderness. This concept, universal to the point of banality, could not have survived unless it were biologically true.
I know this may sound farfetched,' I said to Elizabeth Vrba, 'but if I were asked, "What is the big brain for"?, I would be tempted to say, "For singing our way through the wilderness."'
Bruce Chatwin, Winding Paths: Photographs by Bruce Chatwin (London: Jonathan Cape, 1999), pp. 23-24.
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