| Don't drive angry.
- Groundhog
Day
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
- Turkish proverb
May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous,
leading to the most amazing view...where something strange and
more beautiful and full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits
for you.
- Edward
Abbey
Come on, let's take the long cut. I think that's what we need.
We'll get there eventually.
- Wilco
Just walking around the capital was a strain. The crowded conditions
and quick tempo of any large city put walkers on guard. But
to Mexicans who visited the great cities of Europe and America,
and to foreigners in Mexico, the capital was particularly hostile
to pedestrians... "We are convinced," wrote a city paper, "that
the difficutly of walking through our streets in not realy because
of the number of pedestrians, but because most of them don't
know how to walk properly. The number of idiots is infinite.
Friends stop right in the middle of the sidewalk for conversations
without a thought to those they bother; entire families take
up the width of the walkway and force those oncoming into street
traffic; dandies walk around in circles sticking people with
their canes."
- Michael Johns, The
City of Mexico in the Age of Diaz
"I studied roadcuts and outcrops as a kid, on long trips with
my family," Karen says. "I was probalby doomed to be a geologists
from the beginning." She grew up in the Genesee Valley, and
most of the long trips were down through Pennsylvania and the
Virginias to see her father's parents. On such a journey, it
would have been difficult not to notice all the sheets of rock
that had been bent, tortured, folded, faulted, crumpled - and
to wonder how that happened.
- John McPhee, Basin
and Range
If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have
no song.
- Carl Perkins
These prayers are the constant road across the wilderness.
These prayers are the memory of god.
- Paul Simon
The guileless curiosity of peasant and gentry alike was symptomatic
of a deeper problem: the individual freedoms that came with
the railroads, markets and city streets were not matched by
a sense of public responsibility. The habit of adjusting one's
behavior to surrounding conditions -- for example, by not walking
four abreast or stopping for a chat or a look-see in the middle
of a sidewalk -- was slow to develop.
- Michael Johns, The
City of Mexico in the Age of Diaz
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