Peak and Northern Footpaths Society - A registered charity dedicated to preserving public rights of way. Details of membership, volunteer activities, organised walks, footpath fault reporting. Includes North West.
A Collection of Peak District Walks - A collection of fully described walks in the Peak District paying specific attention to the history of the region.
Walking in Northern England - Useful information and pictures of interesting walks in the Yorkshire Dales, Lake District, North Yorks Moors and the Leeds and Harrogate areas.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Walking "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Walking
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Walking Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Walking
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Walking The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Walking
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Walking "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Walking
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Walking Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Walking
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Walking I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Walking
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Walking Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Walking
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Walking Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Walking
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Walking I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Walking
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Walking You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Walking
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Walking If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Walking
