I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci
(Video: The Vale of Edale from Rushup Edge, Peak District, Derbyshire)
โFor last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.โ โ T.S. Eliot (Photo: Milldale, Peak District, Derbyshire)
โThere is nothing so beautiful, lovable and moving as the English countryside.โ
โ Stendhal
(Photo: Carsington village, Peak District, Derbyshire)
You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated. - Maya Angelou (Photo: Lose Hill from Long Cliff, Castleton, Peak District, Derbyshire)
"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated." - Maya Angelou (Photo: Packhorse Bridge and the River Noe on the Pennine Way at the bottom of Jacob's Ladder, Peak District, Derbyshire)
One of the most popular walking and cycling routes in the Peak District is a former railway line now called the Tissington Trail with this location just below Parsley Hay in Derbyshire ๐๐ณ๐
There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind. - Jenny Nimmo
(Photo: Red Cottage, Alport, Peak District, Derbyshire)
โWhoever is showing you the right path, he or she deserves to be called as the light!โ - Mehmet Murat ildan
(Photo: Path near Hartington, Peak District, Derbyshire)
'Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not' - Oscar Wilde (Photo: Ladybower Reservoir, Peak District, Derbyshire)
If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - The Dalai Lama. (Video: Allestree Lake, Allestree Park, Derby)
To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare
(Photo: Minninglow Hill (Neolithic chambered tomb and Bronze Age bowl barrows) and High Peak Trail, Peak District, Derbyshire)
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him - Buddha
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." - Dr. Seuss (Photo: Musden Wood, Peak District, Staffordshire)
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
-- Arthur Golden
(Photo: Pond, Peak District, Derbyshire)
What a scorcher of a day over looking Monsal Dale, Monsal Trail and Monsal Headstone Viaduct from Monsal Head in the Peak District, Derbyshire โ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธ๐
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas A. Edison (Photo: View from Black Rocks, Cromford, Peak District, Derbyshire)
'Whoever is happy will make others happy too.' - Anne Frank
(Photo: Minninglow Hill (Neolithic chambered tomb and Bronze Age bowl barrows) and High Peak Trail, Peak District, Derbyshire)
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future. - John F. Kennedy
(Photo: Overlooking mist over South Darley, Peak District, Derbyshire)
You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo. Yannick Noah
(Photo: Limestone Way, Bonsall village, Peak District, Derbyshire)
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
(Photo: All Saints Church, Bradbourne, Peak District, Derbyshire)
The Historical Market Cross from the Middle Ages with the King's Head pub (1677) in the charming village of Bonsall in the Peak District in Derbyshire ๐๐๐
A wonderful traditional pub called the Sun Inn which dates back at least 300 years in the village of Dent, Dentdale, Yorkshire Dales National Park in Cumbria - Well worth a visit ๐บ๐ป๐โ๏ธ๐
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson (Photo: Stanshope Hall, Peak District, Staffordshire)
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln (Video: Top of Harboro Rocks, Peak District, Derbyshire)
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." -Helen Keller - (Video: Windy day at Brown Knoll Triangulation Point (Trig Point), Peak District, Derbyshire)
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb - Nelson Mandela
(Photo: Mam Tor looking towards Rushup Edge and The Vale of Edale, Peak District, Derbyshire)
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (Photo: Blackwell Mill Cottages, River Wye, Wye Dale, Peak District, Derbyshire)
'Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it' - Charles Swindoll (Video: View from Offerton Edge (Offerton Moor), Peak District, Derbyshire)
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step - Lao Tzu
(Photo: Minninglow (Neolithic chambered tomb and Bronze Age bowl barrows) Peak District, Derbyshire
The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it. (Marianne Williamson) Photo: Limestone Way, Staffordshire
Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you - Walt Witman (Video: Misty morning overlooking Okeover from Thorpe, Peak District, Derbyshire)
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes, so with present time. - Leonardo da Vinci (Video: River Wye, Chee Dale, Peak District, Derbyshire)
โBe like a duck. Calm on the surface but always paddling like the dickens underneath.โ โ Michael Caine (Video: River Dove, Wolfscote Dale, Peak District, Derbyshire)