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%% Title Page
\pagestyle{empty}
\vspace*{25mm}
%\fontsize{28}{42}\selectfont
{\centering
{\Huge \textsc{Walking}}
\noindent{}{\color{green5}\rule{\textwidth}{1.5pt}}
\noindent{}{\color{green5}\rule[2mm]{\textwidth}{0.5pt}}
\vspace{2mm}
{\large with Notes on Urban Ecology}
\vspace{5mm}
Issue \#\kissue{}
\vspace{5mm}
Written and Edited by\\K.J. Odle
\vspace{5mm}
\kpubdate{}
\vspace{2mm}
First Printing
\vspace{20mm}
Typeset in \LaTeX{}
} % end centering environment
\newpage

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\chapterstyle{kfront}
%% Impressum
%\setcounter{page}{1}
\chapter*{Impressum}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Impressum}
All contents \copyright\kpubyear{} Kenneth John Odle
\vspace{50mm}
\noindent{}More information about this zine (as well as information about my other zines) can be found here:
\kref{https://just13.click/just13}{just13.click/just13}
\noindent{}This is typeset in \LaTeX \,using the memoir document class. It then gets exported to a letterhalf (5.5 in x 8.5 in) pdf, which then gets made into a booklet using PDF Booklet, which you can find at
\kref{https://pdfbooklet.sourceforge.io/wordpress/}{https://pdfbooklet.sourceforge.io/wordpress/}
\medskip
\noindent{}I'm pushing this to my own git server as I write this. You can find it at:
\kref{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle/walking-zine}{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle/walking-zine}
\medskip
\noindent{}If you want to donate financial support for the creation of this zine (and all the hours of research that go into it), you can do so at
\kref{https://paypal.me/kjodle}{https://paypal.me/kjodle} (Thanks!)
\medskip
\noindent{}\textbf{Errata:} To err is human, to document those errors is divine. A list of errata can be found at:
\kref{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle/walking-zine/wiki/Errata}{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle/walking-zine/wiki/Errata}
\medskip
\noindent{}I am on social media at:
\noindent{}\kref{https://bsky.app/profile/iswpw.bsky.social}{https://bsky.app/profile/iswpw.bsky.social}\\
\kref{https://mastodon.social/@kjodle}{https://mastodon.social/@kjodle}
\newpage

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\chapter{Monsieur le Chat}
\begin{multicols*}{2}
\lettrine[lraise=0.0, nindent=-0pt]{M}{onsieur le Chat} is an elusive creature.
Cats are natural saunterers. They only run when hunting or playing; the rest of the time they are sleeping or just wandering around, especially if they are outdoor cats.
\kdec
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\chapter{Natives}
\begin{multicols*}{2}
\lettrine[lraise=0.0, nindent=1pt]{D}{espite} walking around what is obviously disturbed spaces, I still see quite a few native species. They're just not as noticeable, either because they're trees and thus not something I'm paying attention to, or because they're not as showy as some of the introduced species that surround them. (That showiness may explain why early immigrants brought these plants with them.)
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\chapter{Natives of Another Land}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\lettrine[lraise=0.0, nindent=3pt]{I}{} have been getting back into the habit of identifying plants I see out on my walks and I've noticed that many of them are ``introduced''—i.e., they were brought to this continent from somewhere else, sometimes accidentally and often deliberately.
When I was in college, we called these ``alien'' or ``foreign'' but we don't use those terms any more because we recognize that Earth is a whole—it is composed of parts that are not fully separated from one another.
It took me longer than it should have to realize that introduced species tend to do well in distubed places—and lawns, gardens, and the sides of roads and paths are all disturbed spaces. So it makes sense that the vast majority of what I find there are introduced species. If I want to see native species, I need to visit the wild spaces around me and go further afoot.
\ksecp{Poison Hemlock}{\textit{Conium maculatum} L.}{Apiaceae}
\noindent{}One plant that has wandered far afield is poison hemlock which I have noticed in increasing numbers in recent years. It is native to Europe and North Africa, and has spread to almost every continent in the past few hundred years, where it is often an invasive weed.
A member of the Apiaceae family (which also includes carrots, dill, and parsnips), it is a striking plant. It can grow to two and a half meters in height and has fernlike bipinnately compound leaves—the botanical description is ``highly dissected'—although this varies from the bottom of the plant to the top. It also bears beautiful white flowers that are quite tiny, but make up for their dimunitiveness by appearing in large compound umbels. The hollow stems are often spotted or streaked with a dull purple color. Once you have seen it, you cannot miss it growing in other areas.
This is the plant that the ancient Greeks used to poison the rabblerouser Socrates (which is what you get, I suppose, when you encourage people to think for themselves). All parts of the plants are toxic, especially the roots and seeds. Every once in a while somebody will mistake it for wild carrot (\textit{Daucus carota}) and make the news, occasionally posthumously. The poisonous alkaloids can also be absorbed through the skin, so handling it with ungloved hands can be dangerous. Mowing it can also be dangerous, as the compounds can be aerosolized and breathed in. A mask will provide some protection against this.
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\chapter{Sunday Mornings}
\begin{multicols*}{2}
\lettrine[lraise=0.0, nindent=-0pt]{}{}
\ksecn{The Golf Course}
\lettrine[lraise=0.0, nindent=-0pt]{}{}
I am always reminded, of course, of the short poem ``The Golf Links'':
%\poemtitle{The Golf Links}
\settowidth{\versewidth}{The golf links lie so near the mill}
\begin{verse}[\versewidth]
%\begin{verse}[14em]
The golf links lie so near the mill\\
That almost every day\\
The laboring children can look out\\
And see the men at play
\end{verse}
\attrib{Sarah Cleghorne (1876--1959)}
\kdec
That is not the situation today and in fact, I occasionally see young people on the golf course playing with their parents. But that does not mean that we have moved on so far from the situation described in the poem.
Social inequalities still exist, but they are better hidden. No doubt the young sons of men of wealth played golf with their fathers while children their own age toiled away in mills.
\end{multicols*}

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\chapter{Thoreau}
\begin{multicols*}{2}
\lettrine[lraise=0.0, nindent=3pt]{I}{n} 1862, Henry David Thoreau published a short piece called ``Walking'' in which he said:
\epigraph{I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is of taking walks—who had a genius, so to speak, for \textit{sauntering}…}{\textit{Atlantic Monthly}, 1862}
He goes on to give a long (and possibly incorrect) definition of the word \textit{saunter}, but his point is still valid: we rarely, if ever, just saunter any more. All our motion is with purpose, with intent; we are determined to get somewhere else from here and to do something once we get there. We do not know how to just wander around for the sake of wandering around.
\end{multicols*}

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%% Generic packages
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ninecolors}
\usepackage{lettrine} % Drop caps
\usepackage[object=vectorian]{pgfornament}
\usepackage[english]{babel} % Correcting hyphenation issues
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

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%%% Page layout (half letter) %% Specific to Memoir class
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/758505/245702
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\settrims{0mm}{0mm}
\setlrmarginsandblock{12mm}{15mm}{*}
\setulmarginsandblock{22mm}{20mm}{*}
%%% Chapter titles %% Specific to Memoir class
\makechapterstyle{kchap}{
\renewcommand*{\chapterheadstart}{\vspace*{\beforechapskip}}
\renewcommand*{\printchaptername}{}
\renewcommand*{\chapternamenum}{\space}
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}
%%% Page styles %% Specific to Memoir class
%\newcommand{\kinfo}{{\footnotesize Chapter \thechapter{} • \S{} \rightmark{}}}
%\newcommand{\kinfo}{{\footnotesize Chapter \thechapter: \leftmark{} • \rightmark}}
\newcommand{\kinfo}{{\footnotesize Issue \kissue{} • Summer}}
\makepagestyle{kpage}
\makeevenhead{kpage}{\textsc{Walking}}{}{\kinfo}
\makeoddhead{kpage}{\kinfo}{}{\textsc{Walking}}
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\createmark {chapter}{left}{nonumber}{}{}
\createmark {section}{right}{nonumber}{}{}
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% Section styling
\setsecheadstyle{\normalsize\bfseries}
\setbeforesecskip{0.5\baselineskip}
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% Indent sections in TOC
\setlength{\cftsectionindent}{10mm}
%%% required if you have changed the settings! %% Specific to Memoir class
\checkandfixthelayout

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%%% Variables
\def\kauthors{}
\def\ktitle{}
\def\kissue{1}
\def\kpubdate{August 2026}
\def\kpubyear{2026}

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%%% Multicolumns
\usepackage{multicol}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.5pt}
\def\columnseprulecolor{\color{gray7}}
\setlength{\columnsep}{5mm}
%%% Poetry
\usepackage{verse}
\newcommand{\attrib}[1]{
\nopagebreak{\raggedleft\footnotesize #1\par\vspace{\baselineskip}}
}
\renewcommand{\poemtitlefont}{\normalfont\large\itshape\centering}
%%% Fonts
\usepackage{mathptmx}
%\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath}
%%% Text decorations
\newcommand{\kdec}{
\noindent{}\begin{center}
\pgfornament[scale=0.25,color=green6]{85}
\end{center}
}
%%% Misc commands
%\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
\newcommand{\kskip}{\\\hphantom{xxx}}
% Make hrefs easier (must load package hyperref}
\newcommand\kref[2]{\href{#1}{{\texttt{#2}}}}
% Put unnumbered sections in TOC, also with idented second lines for Latin names
\newcommand{\ksecp}[3]{
\section*{{#1}\kskip{}({#2} • {\small \textsc{\textmd{{#3}}}})}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{{#1} ({#2} • {\small \textsc{\textmd{{#3}}}})}
}
\newcommand{\ksecn}[1]{
\section*{{#1}}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{{#1}}
}

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\documentclass[9pt,openany]{memoir}
%% Generic packages
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ninecolors}
\usepackage{lettrine} % Drop caps
\usepackage[object=vectorian]{pgfornament}
\usepackage[english]{babel} % Correcting hyphenation issues
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
%%% Page layout (half letter) %% Specific to Memoir class
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/758505/245702
\setstocksize{8.5in}{5.5in}
\settrimmedsize{8.5in}{5.5in}{*}
\settrims{0mm}{0mm}
\setlrmarginsandblock{12mm}{15mm}{*}
\setulmarginsandblock{22mm}{20mm}{*}
%%% Chapter titles %% Specific to Memoir class
\makechapterstyle{kchap}{
\renewcommand*{\chapterheadstart}{\vspace*{\beforechapskip}}
\renewcommand*{\printchaptername}{}
\renewcommand*{\chapternamenum}{\space}
\renewcommand*{\printchapternum}{\hfill\chapnumfont Chapter \thechapter}
\renewcommand*{\afterchapternum}{\par\nobreak\vskip \midchapskip\hrule\vspace{5mm}}
\renewcommand*{\printchapternonum}{}
%\renewcommand*{\printchaptertitle}[1]{\chaptitlefont #1}
\renewcommand*{\afterchaptertitle}{\par\nobreak\vskip \afterchapskip}
\renewcommand*{\chapnamefont}{\normalfont\normalsize}
\renewcommand*{\chapnumfont}{\normalfont\large\itshape}
\renewcommand*{\chaptitlefont}{\normalfont\Huge\scshape}
\setlength{\beforechapskip}{0mm}
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\renewcommand*{\printchaptername}{}
\renewcommand*{\chapternamenum}{\space}
%\renewcommand*{\printchapternum}{\hfill\chapnumfont Chapter \thechapter}
\renewcommand*{\afterchapternum}{\par\nobreak\vskip \midchapskip\hrule\vspace{5mm}}
\renewcommand*{\printchapternonum}{}
%\renewcommand*{\printchaptertitle}[1]{\chaptitlefont #1}
\renewcommand*{\afterchaptertitle}{\par\nobreak\vskip \afterchapskip}
\renewcommand*{\chapnamefont}{\normalfont\normalsize}
\renewcommand*{\chapnumfont}{\normalfont\large\itshape}
\renewcommand*{\chaptitlefont}{\normalfont\Huge\scshape}
\setlength{\beforechapskip}{0mm}
\setlength{\midchapskip}{2mm}
\setlength{\afterchapskip}{10mm}
}
%%% Page styles %% Specific to Memoir class
%\newcommand{\kinfo}{{\footnotesize Chapter \thechapter{} • \S{} \rightmark{}}}
%\newcommand{\kinfo}{{\footnotesize Chapter \thechapter: \leftmark{} • \rightmark}}
\newcommand{\kinfo}{{\footnotesize Issue \kissue{} • Summer}}
\makepagestyle{kpage}
\makeevenhead{kpage}{\textsc{Walking}}{}{\kinfo}
\makeoddhead{kpage}{\kinfo}{}{\textsc{Walking}}
\makeevenfoot{kpage}{}{\thepage}{}
\makeoddfoot{kpage}{}{\thepage}{}
\makeheadrule{kpage}{\textwidth}{0.1mm}
\makefootrule{kpage}{\textwidth}{0.1mm}{2mm}
\makepsmarks{kpage}{
\nouppercaseheads
\createmark {chapter}{left}{nonumber}{}{}
\createmark {section}{right}{nonumber}{}{}
}
\makeatother
%%% Other Memoir class settings
\setlength{\epigraphwidth}{16em}
% Section styling
\setsecheadstyle{\normalsize\bfseries}
\setbeforesecskip{0.5\baselineskip}
\setaftersecskip{0.5\baselineskip}
% Indent sections in TOC
\setlength{\cftsectionindent}{10mm}
%%% required if you have changed the settings! %% Specific to Memoir class
\checkandfixthelayout
%%% Multicolumns
\usepackage{multicol}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.5pt}
\def\columnseprulecolor{\color{gray7}}
\setlength{\columnsep}{5mm}
%%% Poetry
\usepackage{verse}
\newcommand{\attrib}[1]{
\nopagebreak{\raggedleft\footnotesize #1\par\vspace{\baselineskip}}
}
\renewcommand{\poemtitlefont}{\normalfont\large\itshape\centering}
%%% Fonts
\usepackage{mathptmx}
%\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath}
%%% Variables
\def\kauthors{}
\def\ktitle{}
\def\kissue{1}
\def\kpubdate{August 2026}
\def\kpubyear{2026}
%%% Text decorations
\newcommand{\kdec}{
\noindent{}\begin{center}
\pgfornament[scale=0.25,color=green6]{85}
\end{center}
}
%%% Misc commands
%\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
\newcommand{\kskip}{\\\hphantom{xxx}}
% Make hrefs easier (must load package hyperref}
\newcommand\kref[2]{\href{#1}{{\texttt{#2}}}}
% Put unnumbered sections in TOC, also with idented second lines for Latin names
\newcommand{\ksecp}[3]{
\section*{{#1}\kskip{}({#2} • {\small \textsc{\textmd{{#3}}}})}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{{#1} ({#2} • {\small \textsc{\textmd{{#3}}}})}
}
\newcommand{\ksecn}[1]{
\section*{{#1}}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{{#1}}
}
\input{parts/1-packages}
\input{parts/2-memoir}
\input{parts/3-variables}
\input{parts/4-commands}
%%% Get it started
\checkandfixthelayout
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\pagenumbering{roman}
%% Title Page
\pagestyle{empty}
\vspace*{25mm}
%\fontsize{28}{42}\selectfont
{\centering
{\Huge \textsc{Walking}}
\noindent{}{\color{green5}\rule{\textwidth}{1.5pt}}
\noindent{}{\color{green5}\rule[2mm]{\textwidth}{0.5pt}}
\vspace{2mm}
{\large with Notes on Urban Ecology}
\vspace{5mm}
Issue \#\kissue{}
\vspace{5mm}
Written and Edited by\\K.J. Odle
\vspace{5mm}
\kpubdate{}
\vspace{2mm}
First Printing
\vspace{20mm}
Typeset in \LaTeX{}
} % end centering environment
\newpage
\chapterstyle{kfront}
%% Impressum
%\setcounter{page}{1}
\chapter*{Impressum}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Impressum}
All contents \copyright\kpubyear{} Kenneth John Odle
\vspace{50mm}
\noindent{}More information about this zine (as well as information about my other zines) can be found here:
\kref{https://just13.click/just13}{just13.click/just13}
\noindent{}This is typeset in \LaTeX \,using the memoir document class. It then gets exported to a letterhalf (5.5 in x 8.5 in) pdf, which then gets made into a booklet using PDF Booklet, which you can find at
\kref{https://pdfbooklet.sourceforge.io/wordpress/}{https://pdfbooklet.sourceforge.io/wordpress/}
\medskip
\noindent{}I'm pushing this to my own git server as I write this. You can find it at:
\kref{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle/walking-zine}{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle/walking-zine}
\medskip
\noindent{}If you want to donate financial support for the creation of this zine (and all the hours of research that go into it), you can do so at
\kref{https://paypal.me/kjodle}{https://paypal.me/kjodle} (Thanks!)
\medskip
\noindent{}\textbf{Errata:} To err is human, to document those errors is divine. A list of errata can be found at:
\kref{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle/walking-zine/wiki/Errata}{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle/walking-zine/wiki/Errata}
\medskip
\noindent{}I am on social media at:
\noindent{}\kref{https://bsky.app/profile/iswpw.bsky.social}{https://bsky.app/profile/iswpw.bsky.social}\\
\kref{https://mastodon.social/@kjodle}{https://mastodon.social/@kjodle}
\newpage
\input{chapters/1-titlepage}
\input{chapters/2-impressum}
%% TOC
\pagestyle{empty}
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\pagestyle{kpage}
\chapterstyle{kchap}
\chapter{Thoreau}
\begin{multicols*}{2}
\lettrine[lraise=0.0, nindent=3pt]{I}{n} 1862, Henry David Thoreau published a short piece called ``Walking'' in which he said:
\epigraph{I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is of taking walks—who had a genius, so to speak, for \textit{sauntering}…}{\textit{Atlantic Monthly}, 1862}
He goes on to give a long (and possibly incorrect) definition of the word \textit{saunter}, but his point is still valid: we rarely, if ever, just saunter any more. All our motion is with purpose, with intent; we are determined to get somewhere else from here and to do something once we get there. We do not know how to just wander around for the sake of wandering around.
\end{multicols*}
\chapter{Natives of Another Land}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\lettrine[lraise=0.0, nindent=3pt]{I}{} have been getting back into the habit of identifying plants I see out on my walks and I've noticed that many of them are ``introduced''—i.e., they were brought to this continent from somewhere else, sometimes accidentally and often deliberately.
When I was in college, we called these ``alien'' or ``foreign'' but we don't use those terms any more because we recognize that Earth is a whole—it is composed of parts that are not fully separated from one another.
It took me longer than it should have to realize that introduced species tend to do well in distubed places—and lawns, gardens, and the sides of roads and paths are all disturbed spaces. So it makes sense that the vast majority of what I find there are introduced species. If I want to see native species, I need to visit the wild spaces around me and go further afoot.
\ksecp{Poison Hemlock}{\textit{Conium maculatum} L.}{Apiaceae}
\noindent{}One plant that has wandered far afield is poison hemlock which I have noticed in increasing numbers in recent years. It is native to Europe and North Africa, and has spread to almost every continent in the past few hundred years, where it is often an invasive weed.
A member of the Apiaceae family (which also includes carrots, dill, and parsnips), it is a striking plant. It can grow to two and a half meters in height and has fernlike bipinnately compound leaves—the botanical description is ``highly dissected'—although this varies from the bottom of the plant to the top. It also bears beautiful white flowers that are quite tiny, but make up for their dimunitiveness by appearing in large compound umbels. The hollow stems are often spotted or streaked with a dull purple color. Once you have see it, you cannot miss it growing in other areas.
This is the plant that the ancient Greeks used to poison the rabblerouser Socrates (which is what you get, I suppose, when you encourage people to think for themselves). All parts of the plants are toxic, especially the roots and seeds. Every once in a while somebody will mistake it for wild carrot (\textit{Daucus carota}) and make the news, occasionally posthumously. The poisonous alkaloids can also be absorbed through the skin, so handling it with ungloved hands can be dangerous. Mowing it can also be dangerous, as the compounds can be aerosolized and breathed in. A mask will provide some protection against this.
\end{multicols}
\chapter{Natives}
\begin{multicols*}{2}
\lettrine[lraise=0.0, nindent=1pt]{D}{espite} walking around what is obviously disturbed spaces, I still see quite a few native species. They're just not as noticeable, either because they're trees and thus not something I'm paying attention to, or because they're not as showy as some of the introduced species that surround them. (That showiness may explain why early immigrants brought these plants with them.)
\end{multicols*}
\chapter{Sunday Mornings}
\begin{multicols*}{2}
\lettrine[lraise=0.0, nindent=-0pt]{}{}
\ksecn{The Golf Course}
\lettrine[lraise=0.0, nindent=-0pt]{}{}
I am always reminded, of course, of the short poem ``The Golf Links'':
%\poemtitle{The Golf Links}
\settowidth{\versewidth}{The golf links lie so near the mill}
\begin{verse}[\versewidth]
%\begin{verse}[14em]
The golf links lie so near the mill\\
That almost every day\\
The laboring children can look out\\
And see the men at play
\end{verse}
\attrib{Sarah Cleghorne (1876--1959)}
\kdec
That is not the situation today and in fact, I occasionally see young people on the golf course playing with their parents. But that does not mean that we have moved on so far from the situation described in the poem.
Social inequalities still exist, but they are better hidden. No doubt the young sons of men of wealth played golf with their fathers while children their own age toiled away in mills.
\end{multicols*}
\chapter{Monsieur le Chat}
\begin{multicols*}{2}
\lettrine[lraise=0.0, nindent=-0pt]{M}{onsieur le Chat} is an elusive creature.
Cats are natural saunterers. They only run when hunting or playing; the rest of the time they are sleeping or just wandering around, especially if they are outdoor cats.
\kdec
\end{multicols*}
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