y his mid-twenties, Friedrich Nietzsche was walking six to eight hours a day. He set out about two hours before the sun rose over the mountain and he’d continue to walk as the shadows lengthened into afternoon and early evening. With notebook in hand, and an umbrella to protect his eyes from the sun, Nietzsche composed his thoughts while walking, which perhaps explains why his writings at that time were somewhat unstructured, and pregnant with pithy aphorisms, a style of writing he recommended one should “dip into” rather than to read straight through, such as, “We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, – it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains
