Author: baronvoncrow

Walking fast is neither sexy not engaging. Nobody notices the people who race around. If you’re walking in heels, you’ve got time.

Christian Louboutin

I was never less alone than when by myself

Edward Gibbon

Pilgrimage is of course a fundamental element of every Jubilee event.  Setting out on a journey is traditionally associated with our human quest for meaning in this life. A pilgrimage on foot is a great aid for rediscovering the value of silence, effort, and simplicity of life

Pope Francis, Papal Bull, ‘Spes non confundit’

I need not tell you that I love you dearly, and am very, very sorry in my heart to part with you. But this life is half made up of partings, and these pains must be borne. It is my comfort and my sincere conviction that you are going to try the life for which you are best fitted. I think its freedom and wildness more suited to you than any experiment in a study or office would ever have been

Charles Dickens, letter to his youngest son, 1868

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.

John Muir

Who could say that the workers had had their reasonable share in the extraordinary increase of wealth and comfort during the last hundred years? They had made fun of them by declaring them free. Yes, free to starve, a freedom of which they fully availed themselves. It put no bread into your cupboard to go and vote for fine fellows who went away and enjoyed themselves, thinking no more of the wretched voters than of their old boots.

Emile Zola, Germinal

Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day…

Bill Withers

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

John Keats

Now she could hear the roar of the ancient sea beneath her, its voice trapped in the millions of tiny shells that made up the Chalk.

Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd’s Crown