“Explore unfamiliar sections—on foot if wet, on bicycle, if dry.”
Henry Miller
more infosource: Henry Miller on Writing (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1964), 162.
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category: bicycle, exploration, walking
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via: Brain Pickings“Better walk than ride like that.”
Proverb
more infosource: 1001 Yiddish Proverbs, by Fred Kogos (Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1970), 29.
category: advice, dangerous, driving, proverb, walking, Yiddish proverbs
medium: proverb
notes: Yiddish translation: Aider azoi foren iz besser tsu fus gaien.
“…I’ve always promised myself I’m going to spend my declining years just taking walks in Rome. Nothing could be more profitable, I think, for the last 20 years of one’s life.”
Elizabeth Bishop
more infosource: letter to Robert Lowell, dated Sunday, July 24, 1948, in Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), 45.
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category: aging, Italy, old age, retirement, Rome, walking
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walking