Word: toadding
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Wild walking intoxicates the Toad. But all walking is a matter of style. In finer sensibility, Toad might admit that a tramp through hyena droppings would rank pretty low on the evolutionary scale of walking...
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge did not fight over drinking water as they rambled through the Lake District. In any case, the important thing to Toad was that walking put the mind in motion, and might even set poetry in motion. A line of verse is a march of poetic feet, the trudge of iambs and shuffle of dactyls, the ambulations of language...
...Toad simultaneously loved walking as an escape from thought, a way of setting the world itself astir, like a cycloramic dream, so that it flowed through his eye to his mind at the speed that suits the total creature best -- all higher speeds being a mere greed for frivolous accelerations, for wind in the face...
...best walking is a liberation, and a way of thinking. A creature like Toad is not a tree, but is designed to move across earth's surface, perpendicular to gravity and companioned by time. Somehow walking, thought Toad in his mellower moments, makes time a passage that is not only bearable but also sweet and festooned with an everlastingly changing array of scenery...
...many kinds of walking did Toad savor. Beach walking took him along the edge of eternity. Night walking carried him through another mysterious fluid, darkness. Walking populated his solitude with multitudes of fancies and inner images, and let his mind roam up and down in time. Yet walking in the city also gave him sometimes an ecstatic solitude -- a paradoxical apartness and serenity...