John

“I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.”
― Tony Benn

“The range and diversity of...places in England with character or charm is often overlooked. A bicycle more than anything else helps one both to find and to appreciate them: they and it have quiet tastes in common.

And a bicycle leaves no smell, oil-drip, weakened fabric or frightened pedestrian in its wake.”
― Frederick Alderson, England by Bicycle

“Just off the roaring, high-velocity motorways and the congested main roads, there is still a leisurely, low-decibel, cyclists' England. Here, quite apart from national parks, conservation areas and other tourists' high spots is an unspectacular, intimate countryside: and it is the cyclist, himself unspectacular, not the motorist, who is best equipped to enjoy its pleasures of pub, church, market-place and cottage in all their variety of regional character.”
― Frederick Alderson, England by Bicycle

“When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running