The loss of walking as an individual and a community act has the potential to destroy our deepest spiritual connections, our democratic society, our neighborhoods, and our freedom, says author Antonia Malchik, introducing her book A Walking Life: Reclaiming our Health and Freedom, One Step at a Time. For author and activist, Jonathon Stalls, walking is a radical necessity, a nourishing practice to wake us up and “to begin healing our culture’s profound separation from the natural world.” His recent book, Walk: Slow Down, Wake Up, and Connect at 1-3 Miles per Hour, blends storytelling with practical exercises in a moving manifesto for reclaiming pedestrian dignity. Both authors join in conversation with Walking America host Ann de Forest to talk about themes of vulnerability, human dignity, presence, mystery, and resistance, and examine exactly how walking is essential, how deeply reliant our brains and bodies are on this simple pedestrian act — and how we can reclaim it.