Andy Goldsworthy, the Peace Pilgrim, and giving way to faith. “I walk until given shelter, fast till given food. it is given without asking…” – The Peace Pilgrim. As Andy Goldsworthy in his film Rivers and Tides shares how uncomfortable he is traveling, and in Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit where the Peace Pilgrim story is shared, the desire is found to connect these two. At the same time, distracted by the religious quotes, the pilgrimage of faith, and the writer’s ability to jump from religious passage to AIDS non-walks. Seeking a desire to relate how the faith of nature to intervene becomes the intersection of these two, plus the idea of pilgrimage that should be looked at.

With meditations in direct relation to walking in the Buddhist understanding and connecting to the uniform idea of walking, yet each step is different, while often being a struggle. This meditation paired with walking is just another slowing down of focus; while breathing is mostly involuntary, walking is the next step and the closest way to move forward from breath. The Peace Pilgrim walked twenty-five thousand miles for peace and continued on past that mark as she sought the movement in meditation to seek change while she had surpassed a traditional life in her journey. While Goldsworthy shows how grounded he is in his movement as he not only shares his displeasure in travel but as he goes out and makes subtle connections in the natural environment and the art that comes to him. He communicates his work with photography, but it captures a moment in the natural world that he has let come to him. Time, presence, and patience are overcoming factors for both of these people as a tide washes away work and as a woman goes on to talk about her quest for peace. These journeys are taken in observation or in movement, but time and nature persist in all of them overall. This comes to mind mainly to both give credit and discredit the faith-based pilgrimage as god or gods direct interaction due to a journey or discipline taken as an action towards the betterment of the individual. These two show that nature will interact and inspire, especially as we quiet our minds and work with an objective. “The river has an unpredictable to it that has its own cycles… We are talking about a flow, a river of growth that flows through the trees and land.” – Andy Goldsworthy. In a way, the Peace Pilgrim is the flow she needs to move and express while Andy lets the flow come to him as they both have faith that the world will interact with them in unexpected but positive ways.