• Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road"
  Originally published as "Poem of the Road" in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass

• Henry David Thoreau, "Walking"
  Portions first delivered in lecture form in 1851; first published in present format in 1862 in the Atlantic Monthly

• Mary Austin, "The Walking Woman"
  Originally published in 1909 in Lost Borders

• Gary Snyder, "The Circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais"
  Published in 1996 in Mountains and Rivers Without End

• Gary Snyder, "John Muir on Mt. Ritter",
  Re-printed in 2000 in The Gary Snyder Reader

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