Long Distance Footpath

Famous quotes containing the words long, distance and/or footpath:

“The long day’s task is done,
And we must sleep.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Midway the lake we took on board two manly-looking middle-aged men.... I talked with one of them, telling him that I had come all this distance partly to see where the white pine, the Eastern stuff of which our houses are built, grew, but that on this and a previous excursion into another part of Maine I had found it a scarce tree; and I asked him where I must look for it. With a smile, he answered that he could hardly tell me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The footpath down to the well is healed.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)