Look at statues dating back three centuries or more: wide feet, solid thighs; we are forgetting how to walk, an activity which used to give us a nobility of gait and carriage... But it is better to walk in the mountains so that our legs become almost like arms, our body imitating the quadrumane; climbing up steep gradients and feeling our feet gripping the ground, to a certain extent the lower limbs enjoy no longer having to carry us, and discover another function. Feet make the best hands and hands the most reliable feet. The lowest muscles always aim highest: pillars, launching pads, towards the spiritual part. Hermes always has wings on his feet.
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Michel Serres, The Five Senses
Look at statues dating back three centuries or more: wide feet, solid thighs; we are forgetting how to walk, an activity which used to give us a nobility of gait and carriage...
But it is better to walk in the mountains so that our legs become almost like arms, our body imitating the quadrumane; climbing up steep gradients and feeling our feet gripping the ground, to a certain extent the lower limbs enjoy no longer having to carry us, and discover another function. Feet make the best hands and hands the most reliable feet. The lowest muscles always aim highest: pillars, launching pads, towards the spiritual part. Hermes always has wings on his feet.
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