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" ... and cushions. I am not going to advocate the disuse of boots and shoes, or the abandoning of the improved modes of travel; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany... "
Book of Biographies: This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Leading ... - Page 90
by Biographical Publishing Company - 1898 - 739 pages
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The Writings of John Burroughs: Winter sunshine

John Burroughs - Natural history - 1895 - 268 pages
...of travel; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who...spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride. When I see the discomforts that able-bodied American men will put up with rather than go a mile or...
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The Writings of John Burroughs, Volume 3

John Burroughs - 1895 - 268 pages
...of travel; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who...spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride. When I see the discomforts that able-bodied American men will put up with rather than go a mile or...
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The Writings of John Burroughs: Winter sunshine

John Burroughs - Natural history - 1895 - 268 pages
...of travel; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who...spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride. When I see the discomforts that able-bodied American men will put up with rather than go a mile or...
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The Writings of John Burroughs: Winter sunshine

John Burroughs - 1904 - 308 pages
...of travel ; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who...spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride. When I see the discomforts that able-bodied American men will put up with rather than go a mile or...
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Winter Sunshine

John Burroughs - Natural history - 1904 - 324 pages
...can on behalf of the pedestriğD' and sho^ how a]J the shining angels second and accompany the ttan who goes afoot, while all the dark spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride. When I see the discomforts that able-bodied American men will put up with rather than go a mile or...
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In Praise of Walking

Walking - 1905 - 104 pages
...of travel ; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who goes afoot, while all the dark spirits are ever lookjng out for a chance to ride. When I see the discomforts that able-bodied American men will put...
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Walking: A Fine Art, as Practised by Naturalists and Explained by Original ...

Edward Fuller Bigelow - Natural history - 1907 - 190 pages
...on behalf of the destrian, and show how all the shining gels second and accompany the man who _ >es afoot, while all the dark spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride. When I see the discomforts that abledied American men will put up with ther than go a mile or half...
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Jack in the Pulpit

Arthur Gray Staples - Authors, American - 1921 - 320 pages
...must walk ; and to walk, one must belong to the Order of Walkers, of which John Burroughs says: "All the shining angels second and accompany the man who...spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride. * * * A race that neglects or despises the primitive gift of walking ; that fears to touch the soil...
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Walking the Appalachian Trail

Larry Luxenberg - Sports & Recreation - 1994 - 276 pages
...of travel; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who...spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride. John Burroughs I DON'T KNOW ANOTHER FACET OF LIFE WHERE PEOPLE GO OUT OF their way to help other people...
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