Travel became distinguishable from pain and began to be regarded as an intellectual pleasur.. These factors--the voluntariness of departure, the freedom implicit in the indeterminancies of mobility, the pleasure of travel free from necessity, the notion that travel signifies autonomy and is a means for demonstrating what one 'really' is independent of one context or set of defining associations--remain the characteristics of the modern conception of travel. Eric Leed . Robin Jarvis
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  1. My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is. - Ellen DeGeneres

  2. Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. - Steven Wright

  3. When you walk a tightrope, you don't want to be eating buttered popcorn. - Anthony T. Hincks

  4. They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality. - Patrick White

  5. Let your walk be wisely so that you can inspire others to walk wisely! - Mehmet Murat Ildan

More Quotes By Robin Jarvis
  1. The path of life is strewn with many perils and the folly of knowledge is one of the greatest dangers. Wisdom is a treacherous weapon, little master, for it is sundered from compassion. All too often the end of the journey gains more import than...

  2. The time had finally come when she would have to accept the full power of the Starwife. No longer could she be just Ysabelle. Now she had a land to govern and all the daunting responsibilities that that entailed. The liberty she had experienced since...

  3. Curious how even a little time can alter so much.

  4. There are many things in this unhappy world we cannot alter. We must learn to live with our lot and find peace with ourselves.

  5. Yours is a true heart, Vespertilio. Beware of it, for it is surely too large for thy chest to contain.

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