Wander Quotes - Page 20

• Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings

  Henry Mayhew

  Aggravation, Sake, Nightfall

  Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

  Bill Bryson

  Couple, Cities, Islands

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.15, VNR AG

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• Several elements of the ADD mind favor creativity....As mentioned earlier, the term 'attention deficit' is a misnomer. It is a matter of attention inconsistency. While it is true that the ADD mind wanders when not engaged, it is also the case that the ADD mind fastens on to its subject fiercely when it is engaged. A child with ADD may sit for hours meticulously putting together a model airplane.

  Edward Hallowell

  Children, Airplane, Creativity

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• I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

  William Carey

  Prayer, Missionary, Tire

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• [In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Hiking, Looks, Stories

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.111, Penguin

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• Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.

  Gaston Rebuffat

  Journey, Hiking, Rocks

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• Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Two, Monsters

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• Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lazy, Laziness, Melancholy

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.843

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• And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.

  Hart Crane

  Beautiful, Journey, Hands

  Brom Weber, Hart Crane (1970). “Hart Crane: a biographical and critical study”

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• Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.

  George Sterling

  Heart, Eye, San Francisco

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• There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in mind, with no one to meet, no duties, no obligations. I had nothing to do and a thousand nameless, sun-drenched streets to do it in.

  Steven Saylor

  Cities, Mind, Sun

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• But still my fancy wanders free
  Through that which might have been.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Might, Fancy, Stills

  Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

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• Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.

  Zhuangzi

  Views, Simplicity, Mind

  Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.94, Columbia University Press

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• Why don’t you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything

  Zhuangzi

  Trying, Palaces

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• Farewell we call to hearth and hall! Though wind may blow and rain may fall. We must away ere the break of day. Far over wood and mountain tall.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Rain, Fall, Farewell

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• True depth of understanding is wide and steady,
  Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering,
  Words of wisdom are precise and clear

  Zhuangzi

  Wisdom, Understanding, Lazy

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• I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Peace, Rivers

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.7

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• For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human order, creativity is neither a rational deductive process nor the irrational wandering of the undisciplined mind but the emergence of beauty as mysterious as the blossoming of a field of daisies out of the dark Earth.

  Thomas Berry

  Beauty, Creativity, Dark

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.31, Crown

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• The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.

  Robert Fulghum

  Friends, Marriage, Love Is

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.149, Ivy Books

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• All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

  Hal Borland

  Time, Journey, Discovery

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• An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.

  Alfred Wainwright

  Ambition, Wells, Objectives

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• They call me deranged. The hope is that they are right! It is of no greater or lesser import for yet another fool to wander this Earth. But if I am right and science is wrong, then may the Lord God have mercy on mankind!

  Viktor Schauberger

  Earth, May, Fool

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.19, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally deranged it would barely be noticed. But what if I am not a fool, and that science itself has erred? Then the tragedy is incalculable!

  Viktor Schauberger

  What If, Tragedy, Earth

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.95, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• What you're missing is that the path itself changes you.

  Julian Smith

  Journey, Hiking, Missing

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• Of all exercises, walking is the best.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Exercise, Journey

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.13, Modern Library

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