A walk of two or three hundred miles in a calm, clear October, is one of the cheap and wholesome luxuries of life, as free to the poor as to the rich…if his aim be meditation and self-improvement, let him swing his pack and step off entirely alone.
Horace Greeley, Recollections of a Busy Life p.76-7 (Universalist, journalist, social reformer)

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