“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
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I’ve never read anything by Kerouac, but this quote has inspired me to start. :-)
I have not either. But we’re gearing up for a cross-country adventure in a few years and his On The Road is certainly on the reading list! Let me know what you think?