James Horrox
Bio
Freelance editor, writer and translator. Policy analyst at a nonprofit think tank based in Southern California, mainly working on environment and sustainability issues. I sometimes write things, usually about nature and the outdoors.
Stories (2/0)
Walking: An Antidote to Habit
Human beings are nomadic creatures. For 99% of our existence as a species, anthropologists believe, we’ve been on the move. Some scientists have argued that a propensity for travel, novelty and adventure is actually encoded in our DNA. Either way, we don’t take well to confinement.
By James Horroxabout a year ago in Wander
The Science of Hiking
Harvard physician Paul Dudley White, the ‘father of American cardiology’, believed that a brisk, five mile walk every day is as good a remedy for a restless mind as anything the worlds of medicine and psychology have to offer. Many literary notables, from Charles Dickens to Will Self, have written at length on the restorative effects of their peregrinations through the urban jungle, but as Dr. White well understood, there is something unique about walking in natural surroundings that no amount of urban wandering can approximate.
By James Horroxabout a year ago in Wander
