'Oh what joy it is to have leave for living,' wrote Nan Shepherd in The Living Mountain. And what more living and aliveness do you need than the moving blood and the pumping heart refreshed and reinvigorated by the body's own locomotion and its entrance into the bucolic. Passing through a shower as it passes through you is an experience that brings you closer to the Earth not further away from it (as driving in a sealed up gas chamber does). Inhaling the Earth and not your pollution makes you 'hale' and whole, and healthy. This health from your moving blood flushes illness and the ego out, renders you sane and clean. While the opposite can be said for those who do not move their own blood but choose a pollutant to coagulate it. So, don't be 'mental'... be elemental! Cycle, don't drive. Those who mote do not e-mote, those who go do not e-go...
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