A bridge wants not to be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape, an in space to link One-place-town to Another-place-town over a river … – China Miéville, This Census-Taker
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Final Rest Day Photo Essay
Fort William and the end of the West Highland Way
Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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The Mighty Heart of Glencoe
From scenes like these old Scotia’s grandeur springs. – Robert Burns
A Big Country
…it is to this mental tonic, even more than to the bracing air of the heights, that we owe the unwearied spirit which nerves us to walk more leagues upon the mountains than we could walk miles upon the plain. For in the lowlands we walk with the body only; in the highlands we walk with the mind. – Henry Stephens Salt
Loch Lomond Part the Second: rocks, roots and water
No two days […] are ever the same. There is always something fresh to admire. – Tom Weir
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The Bonnie Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond
By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes
Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond
Where we two have passed so many blithesome days
On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.
– Frank Ticheli (1841)
The hills, the hills
Engineering Icons of the 2nd and 21st Centuries on the John Muir Trail
…the nature of architecture proceeding as it does from the human mind will express something about the designer and his or her culture. The architecture itself becomes an expression of the larger opinions of a cultural or social group which may then be impressed upon others. By virtue of observation of an architectural work, an individual may come to understand something about the original builder and his or her culture. – from Wikipedia entry on Architectural Propaganda
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The Union Canal
But, if the canals are left to the mercies of economists and scientific planners, before many years are past the last of them will become a weedy stagnant ditch, and the bright boats will rot at the wharves, to live on only in old men’s memories. – L T C Rolt, Narrowboat
Walking The Landscape 