[1]
See Henry D. Thoreau's "Walden"; "A
Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers";
"Winter"; etc.
[2]
See John Burroughs, his "Birds and Poets";
"Locusts and Wild Honey"; "Pepacton";
"Signs and Seasons"; "Wake Robin"; "Winter
Sunshine"; etc.
[3]
See Richard Jefferies, his "Amateur Poaching";
"Field and Hedgerow"; "Wild Life in a Southern
County"; "Nature near London"; "Round
about a Great Estate"; "Wood Magic"; "The
Story of my Heart."
[4]
See Hamilton Wright Mabie's "In the Forest
of Arden"; "Under the Trees and Elsewhere";
etc.
[5]
See Henry Van Dyke's "Fisherman's Luck, and
some other Uncertain Things"; "Little Rivers:
A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness"; "Days
Off, and other Digressions"; etc.
[6]
See "In the Green Leaf and the Sere," by
"A Son of the Marshes." Edited by J. A. Owen.
Illustrated by G. C. Haïté and D. C. Nicholl. Also
"Drift from Longshore," by the same author and
editor.
[7]
See Charles C. Abbott's "Upland and
Meadow"; "Wasteland Wanderings"; "The
Birds About Us"; "A Naturalist's Rambles about
Home"; "Outings at Odd Times"; "Recent
Rambles, or, In Touch with Nature"; "Travels
in a Tree Top"; "Birdland Echoes"; "Notes
of the Night, and other Outdoor Sketches"; etc.
[8]
See Charles Goodrich Whiting's "Walks in New
England"; etc.
[9]
See George Borrow's "Wild Wales: Its People,
Language and Scenery."
[11]
See his "In Praise of Walking," in The Monthly
Review (London: Murray) of August, 1901.
[12]
Mr Robert F. Stupart, in the "Handbook of
Canada," published by the Publication Committee
of the Local Executive [of the British Association
for the Advancement of Science], Toronto: 1897,
p. 78.
[15]
See a delightful letter to The Publishers' Circular
of September the 27th, 1902; vol. lxxvii., p. 325,
on "A Plea for a Long Walk," by T. Thatcher, of
44 College Green, Bristol, England. Also another
letter by the same writer on "42 Miles on 2d. at
the Age of 64," in the same periodical in its issue
of April the 25th, 1903; vol. lxxviii., p. 457. The
"2d." means that his food consisted of dry brown-bread
crusts only, the cost of which he computes
at twopence.
[17]Confer.—"The primal One, from which all
things are, is everywhere and nowhere. As being
the cause of all things, it is everywhere. As being
other than all things, it is nowhere....
No predicate of Being can be properly applied to it....
It is greatest of all, not by magnitude, but by
potency.... It is to be regarded as infinite, not
because of the impossibility of measuring or counting
it, but because of the impossibility of comprehending
its power. It is perfectly all-sufficing."—"The
Neo-Platonists: A Study in the History of
Hellenism." By Thomas Whittaker. Cambridge,
1901. Chapter v., pp. 58, 59.
[18]
See his General Introduction to Ward's "English
Poets," vol. i., p. xvii. London and New York:
Macmillan, 1880.
[19]
"The Mystery of Golf." By Arnold Haultain.
Second Edition. Pp. 153, 154. London and New
York: Macmillan, 1910.
[37]Confer Edward Carpenter: "The Drama of
Love and Death: A Study of Human Evolution
and Transfiguration," page 51. London: George
Allen, 1912. Also Mr Havelock Ellis, his "Studies
in the Psychology of Sex," vol. vi., p. 558.
[41]
Professor W. W. Campbell, of the Lick Observatory,
California, computes the velocity of the Solar
System through space at approximately nineteen
kilomètres per second (see Lick Observatory
Bulletin, No. 195, vol. vi. (1910-1911), p. 123.
See also Bulletin No. 196, vol. vi., pp. 125
et seq.). What, in interstellar space, the precise
curve described by my finger nail was, especially
if to rotation, revolution, and the approach
to Hercules, we add nutation, tidal drag, and
the precession of the equinoxes, to say nothing
of earth tremours, I should much like to
know.
[42]
All my figures are, of course, rough in the
extreme; and I give Professor Campbell the benefit
of about fifty miles a minute because he says
approximately.
[62]
"Cette immense circulation de vie qui s'opère
dans l'ample sein de la nature; ... cette vie
qui sourd d'une fontaine invisible et gonfle les
veines de cet univers."—Maurice de Guérin,
Journal, p. 22. Paris, 1880.
Transcriber's Note
The original text has been kept, except the following modifications:
Page 40: "inchaote" has been changed to "inchoate".