IN PRAISE OF TRAMPING
HOW TO ENJOY A COUNTRYSIDE It is the man who lives in natural surroundings who marches in step with Nature and with life. He sees in Nature not a master or a servant, but a part of himself, writes Mr F. S. Smythe, of Mount Everest fame, in his latest book, “Over Tyrolese Hills.” To enjoy a countryside it is essential to make a direct contact with it, and this is only to be accomplished by walking over it. To proceed over it rapidly on wheels is to interpose something mechanical and unnatural between the traveller and Nature. That many are realising this is proved by the walking, rambling and camping movements of to-day; they represent the revolt of the human mind from the artificial. It is a healing experience. Worries great and small are eliminated from the mind. The whorls and corners are smoothed out. The traveller looks back dispassionately on the little complexities that constitute his ordinary life and marvels that he should have taken such account of them. Through the very simplicity of his day-to-day existence he sees with rare insight into the hearts of things that puzzle men.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 5 October 1936, Page 3
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196IN PRAISE OF TRAMPING Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 5 October 1936, Page 3
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