Long Distance Walking Route
A 53-mile long-distance walking route called the Annandale Way, running through Annandale from the source of the River Annan in the Moffat Hills to the Solway Firth, was opened in September 2009.
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Famous quotes containing the words long, distance, walking and/or route:
“I long ago come to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.”
—Damon Runyon (1884–1946)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life....To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self.”
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)