Quote: J. Brooks Atkinson

^{“Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out}

^{of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit,}

^{friendly conversation serve well enough by the fireside but}

^{they prove insufficient in the field. For there you need}

^{transcendentalists — nothing less; you need poets, sages,}

^{humorists and natural philosophers.”}

— J. Brooks Atkinson, “A Note on Walking”.