"You see things vacationing on a [bicycle] in a way that is completely different from any other.  In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV.  You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.
           On a [bicycle] the frame is gone.  You're completely in contact with it all.  You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.  That concrete whizzing by 5 inches below your foot is the real thing, the same stuff you walk on, it's right there..."

- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Sally, take my hand

Travel south crossland

Put out the fire

Don't look past my shoulder

The exodus is here

The happy ones are near

Let's get together

Before we get much older

-          The Who - Baba O'Reily

 

The people have noticed that the times are changing
but are they gonna do something now?

I think I've seen you all hesitating

I think I'll go and do something now.

If you want something for nothing
the higher that you climb
the longer you fall.
Maybe your time is coming.
Will you ask to climb,
when you find the wall?
Is it time to doubt?
Is it time to wait?
Will you be left alone
At the starting gate?
I'm not blind
And I don't mind
Coz I've got time,

And oh yeah, I'm alive

-Oasis - Alive

 

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

 

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau

 

Troubled souls unite, we got ourselves tonight .
I am fuel, you are friends, and we got the means to make amends
I am lost, I'm no guide, but I'm by your side
I am right by your side.

Drop the leash, Drop the leash. We are young,

Drop the leash, we are young. 

-Pearl Jam

 

If I'd thought about it I never would've done it,

I guess I would've let it slide,
If I had paid attention to what others were thinkin',

the heart inside me would've died.
I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity,
Someone had to reach for the risin' star,
I guess it was up to me.

-Bob Dylan

 

Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
Strike another match, go start anew
Cuz it's all over now, Baby Blue.
- Bob Dylan