Worn and Dusty ~ Henry David Thoreau

“It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear, that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!” 

~ Henry David Thoreau

More at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau

Artwork from Richard Bawden
 http://www.birchamgallery.co.uk/catalogue/artist/Richard:Bawden/biography/?category=