Great Brook Farm State Park, Massachusetts
We have felt that we almost alone hereabouts practiced this noble art;
though, to tell the truth,
at least if their own assertions are to be received,
most of my townsmen would fain walk sometimes, as I do, but they cannot.
No wealth can buy the requisite leisure,
freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession.
It comes only by the grace of God.
It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker...
HENRY D. THOREAU, Walking
