(path, Robert Frost Farm, Derry, N.H.)
“If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again–if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man–then you are ready for a walk.”
“If you would get exercise go in search of the springs of life. Think of a man’s swinging dumbbells for his health, when those springs are bubbling up in far-off pastures unsought by him!”
“I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit….What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?”
“Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.”
“So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, as warm and serene and golden as on a bankside in autumn.”