Long Distance Footpath

Famous quotes containing the words long, distance and/or footpath:

    “It is wonderful how well watered this country is.... Generally, you may go any direction in a canoe, by making frequent but not very long portages.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    “The footpath down to the well is healed.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)