“It takes more than a short holiday to get a real love of Nature; such a love as makes trees like human companions, and green the colour we look for everywhere we go.”

On the slow, patient work of truly coming to love the natural world · The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (memoir)

• Beauty
• Nature

“What I like so much about meeting these strange people on the Open Road, is their plain and simple characters, which can be known, as a rule, in a few short hours.”

Valuing the openness and immediacy he found among fellow travellers · Autobiography, Later Days

• Friendship
• Solitude
• Truth

“When I suffered most from lack of rest, or bodily sustenance—as my actual experience became darker, the thoughts of the future became brighter, as the stars shine to correspond with the night's shade.”

Finding hope growing stronger as present circumstances became darker · Autobiography, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

• Despair
• Hope