“There is always something fresh, something to be traced or discovered, something particularly to be remembered.” 

“Two large rivers join just below the village at the head of tide-water, and these, with the great inflow from the sea, make a magnificent stream, bordered by lovely green fields that slope gently to long lines of willows at the water’s edge.”

“I have had a good deal of journeying in my life, and taken great delight in it, but I have never taken greater delight than in my rides and drives and tramps and voyages within the borders of my native town.”

“There is never-ending pleasure in making one’s self familiar with such a region.”