“One cannot walk in such regions, consciously without enlargement of thought. There are heights and valleys which, to those who seek them in a sympathetic spirit, are better " seats of learning " than any school or university in the land ; there are days when the climber seems to rise into a rarer mental as well as visual atmosphere, and to leave far below him the crass cares and prejudices of commonplace life.” WalkingThoughtMountains Book:On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scafell Source: On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scafell
“Here, if nowhere else in the land, the sense of satiety is unknown; and it is to this mental tonic, even more than to the bracing air of the heights, that we owe the unwearied spirit which nerves us to walk more leagues upon the mountains than we could walk miles upon the plain. For in the lowlands we walk with the body only; in the highlands we walk with the mind” MountainsWalkHighlands Book:On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scafell Source: On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scafell