Quotes About Footpath

The promenade is a special subset of walking.

We soon reached a dam and had to make a decision. We knew it was forbidden to cross a dam, in the same way that it was forbidden ever to use a footpath or forestry track. (Unless it was part of the dreaded morning battle PT.) This was a simple rule on Selection to make sure that you got used to navigating properly and that the going underfoot was always hard, which it inevitably always was. (In fact I, still to this day, feel a bit guilty if I go hiking on a footpath--old habits die hard.)

Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town. A sign announced that this was no ordinary footpath but the celebrated Appalachian Trail. Running more than 2,100 miles along America's eastern seaboard, through the serene and beckoning Appalachian Mountains, the AT is the granddaddy of long hikes. From Georgia to Maine

Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

I thought of walks in the English countryside, where people start shouting at you as soon as you stray from the footpath.

Of all the mean and wicked things a landlord can do, shutting up his footpath is the nastiest.