Henry David Thoreau on Walking

 

We walked in so pure and bright a light... I thought I had never bathed in such a golden flood, without a ripple or a murmur to it. The west side of every wood and rising ground gleamed like the boundary of elysium,and the sun on our backs seemed like a gentle herdsman, driving us home at evening.

                --From "Walking" by Henry Thoreau; 1862

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!

                --"What Shall It Profit?", Henry David Thoreau, 1854

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

        --Walden (1854), "Solitude", Henry David Thoreau 

On 12 April 2012, out walking

Soren Kierkegaard on walking

Kierkegaard

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

         --Søren Kierkegaard

 

The Hidden Trail, fall 2025

Visit to Mount Royal Cemetery and Cote des Neiges Cemetery in 2008

Visit to Mount Royal Cemetery and Cote des Neiges Cemetery on 16 December 2008.

Mount Royal Cemetery

The Molson mausoleum 

Cote des Neiges Cemetery, this cemetery is adjacent to Mount Royal Cemetery 

 

St. Philip's Anglican Church on 22 November 2025

 

The Vertical Garden at Loyola Park

Opened last summer, here is the vertical garden on 09 October 2025. If the intention was to grow food then it looks like this was a failure; perhaps the growing areas could have been located closer together in order to use the limited available land. 

The Robert Burns Pub

As though it never existed, demolished, removed, trucked away, and a layer of earth smoothed over the old building site. Photographs taken the morning of 01 October 2025.