"WANDER a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you
and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by
uncounted. If you are business-tangled
and so burdened by duty that only weeks can be got out of the heavy laden year,
give a month at least. The time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead
of shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly
immortal. But in every walk with Nature
one receives far more than he seeks. I
only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going
out, I found, was really going in."
(John Muir, 1838-1914)
Eskdale, Cumbria looking towards the Scafells and Bowfell
