sprocket
01-29-2005, 19:37
Just found this great little site....or rather an offshoot of a larger site, and thought of you all here. I wish I could take credit for putting together all of these great and simple quotes, but alas, it was not to be.
Enjoy!:)
http://www.gardendigest.com/walking.htm
Many Thanks !!! great post ! ;)
The Old Fhart
01-30-2005, 12:50
I bought a book called "The Quotable Walker" by the editors of Walking magazine that is 240 pages of quotes on the discount book rack in Hanover. The pages are filled with great (and no so great) quotes. I also like longer pieces like a lot of Robert Sarvice poetry. The following is also one I like because it pretty much describes the trail experience and gathering at shelters for the night.
from THE TRAVELLER; OR, A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY
written by Oliver Goldsmith
Bless'd be that spot, where cheerful guests retire
To pause from toil, and trim their ev'ning fire;
Bless'd that abode, where want and pain repair,
And every stranger finds a ready chair;
Bless'd be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd,
Where all the ruddy family around
Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail,
Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale,
Or press the bashful stranger to his food,
And learn the luxury of doing good.
But me, not destin'd such delights to share,
My prime of life in wand'ring spent and care,
Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue
Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view
That, like the circle bounding earth and skies,
Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies;
My fortune leads to traverse realms alone,
And find no spot of all the world my own.
Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend,
I sit me down a pensive hour to spend;
And, plac'd on high above the storm's career,
Look downward where an hundred realms appear;
Lakes, forests, cities, plain, extending wide,
The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humbler pride.