As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. – Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping

Custom is second nature. – Augustine of Hippo

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. – John Paul Jones

I walked barefoot — the only way to walk on a muddy road. – Laurie Gough, “Light on a Moonless Night”