Most of the good roads are long roads.
From The Beginning Viewed from the End, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
A man came up the river path this morning with a pack on his back and dust to the knees, and he stopped under my maple to eat an apple and did not hurry over it. I used to think the measure of a route was how little of it you had to spend. When I was young in the thinking I took every shortcut the hedge offered and arrived everywhere slightly worse. Most of the good roads are long roads, and the man had the look of somebody who had made his peace with that sometime back in March. Switch asked where he was headed and I said I had no idea; he had not told the apple either. He went on north and the path kept going after he was out of it, which I suppose is the part I keep looking at.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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More like it
- Even a closed door has a knob you could turn to see what happens.
- Why lengthen your stride when you can shorten the road?
- If you’re willing to take a long enough road, you can get anywhere.
- A butterfly does not elude a pursuing bird by speed or by cunning, but by making smaller moves more often.
- The first time a bird hops out of its nest, it trades everything known for a chance to get closer to the sun.
- That we forget our reason for being here does not mean we don’t have one.