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

What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good book from its author, even if he knows from the beginning exactly what he wants to say. A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour, and the easily flowing connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph has always been won by the sweat of the brow.

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.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

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

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

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.