"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
- Albert Camus
"In every walk with nature one receives more than he seeks"
- John Muir
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods... I love not Man the less, but Nature more..."
- Lord Byron
"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."
- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
- Beverly Sills
"He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands..."
- J.R.R. Tolkien
"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Only one who wanders finds new paths."
- Norwegian Proverb
"If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere."
- Vincent Van Gogh
"I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing."
- Aldous Huxley
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
- Steven Wright
"There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir..."
- William Bliss
xoxo, xenophile