Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.