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0395 – Bicycle Questions
Such historians as record the tides of social manners and morals, have neglected the bicycle. – John Galsworthy
0531 – Escape your Chains – Ride
Ride But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn’t racing. Life is the metaphor for the race. – Donald Antrim
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0155 – Bicycle Friendly
Bicycle Friendly The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man’s metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well. ~Ivan Illich
0347 – Helmet
One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you. – Sheryl Crow
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0284 – The Bicycle Thief
The best routes are the ones you haven’t ridden. You could pedal the same loops year after year. Many people do, literally or figuratively. But to grow, you need new rides. Risks. Turn down lanes you’ve long seen but never traveled. Get lost once or twice, then double back to where you started and try […]
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0224 – Burn Fat not Oil
Burn Fat Not Oil Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. – Louis L’Amour
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0156 – Bicycle Flame Rider
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country […]
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0568 – Wasted Day
A Day Without Cycling is a Wasted Day I’m not a bicycle. Don’t try to ride me and leave me in the garage. I’m a treadmill. Walk on me and leave me in a guest room. – Jarod Kintz
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0278 – Bicycle and Go
Young rider pick a destination and go… Older riders pick a direction and go…
0258 – Crank It
Crank It The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it’s fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it’s not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it. – Stephen G. Breyer
0321 – Only Chainring
All creatures who have ever walked have wished that they might fly. With highwheelers a flesh and blood man can hitch wings to his feet. – Karl Kron
Cogs in the Mountain
Boredom greases the cogs in the machinery of marvels. Oh, God, will you be bored. The three days waiting for an Indonesian bureaucrat to issue you a travel permit; the rock slide in Costa Rica that caused a twenty-three-hour traffic jam; the five-day wait for the Congo River passenger barge; the eight sweaty hours spent […]
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0499 – Let’s Go Ride
Let’s Go Ride A stationary bike is a device that epitomizes the phrase “hurry up and wait.” – Jarod Kintz
0448 – Cogs and Cross Bones
You have to sprint on feeling, not thinking. You must have faith in yourself but you cannot think about it too much. – Jean Paul Van Poppel
0421 – Cycle
Cycle The bicycle was the last advance in technology everybody understands. Anybody who can ride one can understand how it works. – Stewart Parker
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0033 – Bicycle Reflectors
Your Eyes Sparkle Lke Bicycle Reflectors When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. – Emo Philips
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0098 – Solution
Solution Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
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0157 – Girl on a Bicycle
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. – John F. Kennedy
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0437 – Love Cycling
Love Cycling The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it. – Doug Bradbury
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0438 – Bicycle Baloon Love
The reason Armstrong has become the world’s most indomitable cyclist and America’s greatest athlete is two-pronged: He has both the physiology and the passion for his chosen vocation. Still, what truly distances Lance from the (pack) isn’t just the pleasure he gleans from being on his bike. All the lads love cycling – and certainly […]
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0484 – Doing What You Cannot Do
The greatest pleasure is life is doing what people say you cannot do. We know that the rider was provoked, but we are forced to apply the regulations. That involves a fine and the immediate exclusion from the race. The gesture is inexcusable. – Giro d’Italia’s Race Jury President
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0312 – Go Cycling
Go Cycling Bicycling is a healthy and manly pursuit with much to recommend it, and, unlike other foolish crazes,it has not died out. – Daily Telegraph
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0052 – Single Pedal Stroke
the journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single pedal stroke
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0087 – A Boy and his Bicycle
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world. – Major Taylor
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0430 – i BIKE life
I bicycle life The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it. – Doug Bradbury
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0195 – Bike Nike
Bike Bicycles are the new rollerblades, talentless is the new talented, and I’m in hog heaven. – Ryan Seacrest
0457 – Life
For all their fearlessness, sprinters are a delicate breed. At the peak of form they effuse an aura of invincibility, suggesting no bicycle rider ever pedaled as fast. To win, sprinters must have everything: physical condition, confidence, luck, aggression and committed team support. An elusive combination, attainable but not sustainable. – David Walsh
0175 – Bicycle Repair Man
Bicycle Repair Man Most bicyclists in New York City obey instinct far more than they obey the traffic laws, which is to say that they run red lights, go the wrong way on one-way streets, violate cross-walks, and terrify innocents, because it just seems easier that way. Cycling in the city, and particularly in midtown, […]
0533 – Ride Bicycle Company
Ride Bicycle Company To be a cyclist is to be a student of pain….at cycling’s core lies pain, hard and bitter as the pit inside a juicy peach. It doesn’t matter if you’re sprinting for an Olympic medal, a town sign, a trailhead, or the rest stop with the homemade brownies. If you never confront […]
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0371 – A Metre Matters
A Metre Matters At first, cycling was denounced from the pulpit as a pastime on a par with drinking and gambling – deplorable at the best of times, and when indulged in on a Sunday, a sure road to hell. – Gurdon S Leete
0478 – Eight Cogs
I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn’t it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer? We are getting soft… As for me, give me a fixed gear! – Henri Desgrange
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0389 – Bicycle Service
Bicycle Service The bicycle enables us to escape many other machines: We use it for transportation, sport, recreation, and make it a way of life. – Jobst Brandt
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0007 – No Bicycles – Whatever
Whatever The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. – Dean Kamen
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0600 – Quickrelease
Need a Quick Release? velodrome: an oval banked track for bicycle racing.
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0351 – Iron Steed
Iron Steed I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. Humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing about a third of the way down the list…. That didn’t look so good, but then someone at Scientific […]
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0184 – Bicycle Security
Security Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring. – Desmond Tutu
0173 – Bicycle Repair Center
Bicycle Repair Centre All bicycles weigh fifty pounds. A thirty-pound bicycle needs a twenty-pound lock. A forty-pound bicycle needs a ten-pound lock. A fifty-pound bicycle doesn’t need a lock. – Author Unknown
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0439 – Love 2 Ride
Love 2 Ride Ride your bike, ride your bike, ride your bike – Fausto Coppi
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0211 – Bikes Bars Beer
Bicycles Bars and Beers A bicycle ride is a flight from sadness. – James E. Starrs
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0025 – Revolution Cycles
Revolution Cycles If I can bicycle, I bicycle. – David Attenborough
0543 – Ride and Shine
Ride and Shine Downhill’s the future of the sport. Cross-country’s not geared for TV. Some fat guy watching it with a beer in one hand and potato chips in the other is going to say, ‘I can do that.’ America likes to see people crash. – Missy Giove
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0614 – Onncycle Bicycles
Clip-ins: Clip-ins (aka step-ins and clipless pedals) are a type of bike pedal that lock onto the cleat of a special cycling shoe so that the rider is firmly attached to the pedal. To lock into clip-ins, firmly step down and forward until it clicks (some clip-ins require twisting the cleat into the lock). To […]
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0268 – Bicycle City – Bicycle Country
When you’re turning the crankset, you’re riding the bike. When you’re coasting, you’re just along for the ride. – Ned Overend
0554 – Cog and Skull
As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. – Scott Westerfeld
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0247 – Little Cog
Cyclers see considerable more of this beautiful world than any other class of citizens. A good bicycle, well applied, will cure most ills this flesh is heir to. – Dr. K. K. Doty
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0270 – Cycling Family
Cycling Family A raggedy ride beats a dressed up walk. – Simon Peat
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0100 – Bicycle Racers
In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I’m doing in that quiet time is just observing. – Robin Williams
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0537 – Brake from Riding
Ride If you were a spectator on one of the mountain passes today, the super-light bikes would be little different in appearance from the machines of years ago, pedaled by earlier heroes, Coppi, Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault, LeMond, Roche. They would look like the bikes our dads rode when we were kids. But the Tour is […]
0306 – Crank, Chain and Cogs
Like dogs, bicycles are social catalysts that attract a superior category of people. – Chip Brown
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0018 – I want to be Cycling
I want A House A New Car A Plasma TV To Be Cyclists To Be Fee
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0097 – Bicycle are Freedom
Bicycles are Freedom Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places – you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors. – Nick Moran
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0584 – Love the Bicycle for its Anarchy
I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task – when my heart was jack-hammering, when lactic acid was sizzling through my muscles – that’s when I felt good, normal, balanced. – Tyler Hamilton
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0042 – Locked Bicycle Heart
In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school. – Vernon L. Smith
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0521 – Fun Between the Legs
Put the fun between you legs. A bicycle does get you there and more… And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun. – Bill Emerson
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0196 – Bike
Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of being flogged by the local wheelmen, along with the fieldhands, the postman, and a young Tennessee Williams. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to his plays. – Truman Capote
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0324 – Guerilla Bicycles
The world is my church, the wind in my ears is the choir and my handlebars are the alter I pray at. – Zcubed
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0632 – May We Suggest Biking?
Drivers angry over bikers need a relaxing hobby. May we suggest bicycling?
0241 – Chain Link Star
A road rider who is not practiced is merely an athlete on a bike, half educated, a pedaler not a complete cyclist. – Maynard Hershon
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0355 – Rough Riding
Racing is one facet of the sport of cycling, but not every ride has to be a race. Yehuda seems to have been born knowing this; I learned it that long-ago day in May; and Joe has yet to realize the fact that the ride itself is the reason to ride. – Bicycling Bill
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0372 – May Use Full Lane
May Use Full Lane I think the most ridiculous sight in the world is a man on a bicycle, working away with his feet as hard as he possibly can, and believing that his horse is carrying him instead of, as anyone can see, he is carrying the horse. – George Bernard Shaw
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0039 – Girl on Bicycle
It’s been a long time since I’ve written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I’m hoping it’s like riding a bicycle. – Lynn Abbey
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0585 – Bicycle Badge Love
aerodynamic: a design of cycling equipment or a riding position that reduces wind resistance; aero for short.
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0077 – Bicycle Forever
Forever My favorite movie ever is ‘Bicycle Thieves.’ – Jennifer Morrison
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0287 – Dreaming of Cogs
My grandfather told me: Always wear underpants beneath your kanzu before you mount your bicycle. Foolishly I mocked him, and now my heart is a dry ear pod. I was cycling home from the market when a terrible whirlwind blew up my kanzu, ballooning it over my face and lifting me far above the ground. […]
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0159 – Cumfy Bicycle
It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they’re out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle’s simplicity and the precision with which it is made. […]
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0494 – Just Tour
Just Tour There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once in awhile, but to climb repeatedly. I would do three different climbs in one day, over the course of a six- or seven-hour ride. A 12 mile climb […]
0329 – Happy Bicycle Rider
Nothing compares to getting your heart rate up to 170-something, riding hard for an hour-twenty, getting off and not hurting, as opposed to 24 minutes of running, at the end of which I hurt. When you ride a bike and you get your heart rate up and you’re out, after 30 or 40 minutes your […]
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0165 – Bicycle Roadway
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast. – Paul Scott Mowrer
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0343 – I Like To Ride Bikes
I like to ride bicycles Your bicycle helps you meet other people. Your bicycle always goes where you want to go. And if you buy your bicycle a box of chocolates for Valentine’s Day, you get to eat them all. – Scott Martin
0598 – Melodic Cycle
ergometer: a stationary, bicycle-like device with adjustable pedal resistance used in physiological testing or for indoor training.
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0410 – I want to Breakaway
Breakway A cyclist or group of cyclists who split off the front of a Peloton are referred to as a Breakaway.
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0170 – Parts of a Bicycle
Things look different from the seat of a bike carrying a sleeping bag with a cold beer tucked inside. – Jim Malusa
0083 – Cog and Fist
What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it’s anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God bringing out the puncture repair kit, re-inflating the tires, taking off the rust, making us roadworthy once more. Not so that we can take flight into ecstasy, but so that we can do […]
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0256 – Country Ride
Country Ride A bicycle ride around the world begins with a single pedal stroke. – Scott Stoll
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0507 – Every Day is a Bike Day
Every Day is a Bicycle Day There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; In this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard. – Jerome K. Jerome
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0107 Moutain Bike Racer
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country […]
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0561 – Ride with Me
Take a Ride with Me I’d rather ride two unicycles at the same time than one bicycle twice – Jarod Kintz
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0473 – Fat Tyres
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on. – Lance Armstrong
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0280 – Lego Bicycle Man
Life may not be about your bike, but it sure can help you get through it. – Hallman
0472 – Fast Folks
Fast Folks I’m gonna show you a hill that would choke a mule. – President George W. Bush
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0513 – Nothing Compares
Nothing Compare to the simple please of a Bicycle ride.
0032 – Smashed One
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. – Charles M. Schulz
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0029 – A Moment’s Silence
For all those who are stuck in traffic on their way to the gym to ride a stationary bicycle.
0236 – Chains and Cogs
Really steep climbs are not my forte, so I always dread that lowest gear because I figure, god, I’m doomed. – Juli Furtado
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0567 – Velorution
Velorution But I pushed and pulled in vain, the wheels would not turn. It was as though the brakes were jammed, and heaven knows they were not, for my bicycle had no brakes. And suddenly overcome by a great weariness, in spite of the dying day when I always felt most alive, I threw the […]
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0465 – Bike-ing is forever
Cycling is forever Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time. – Greg LeMond
0235 – Chain Link
The grace and charm of the bicycle lend added warmth and contour to the persons of the lovers it joins. – James E
0091 – P(ride)
When I was in New York, I took my bike everywhere for transportation. I didn’t have a fixed-gear bicycle, like a lot of the messengers do, but I had a stripped-down deal – having lost a few good ones in New York – and I did 10 to 15 miles a day just getting around […]
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0318 – Traffic Light Bicycle
Finishing a ride is mandatory. Finishing a ride fast is optional. – Unknown
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0422 – Bicycle City – Bicycle Country
The bicycle is ergonomically tailored to the human form and psyche, yet I wonder if a hithero ‘undiscovered’ native tribe, when presented with a bicycle, would ever be able to determine what on earth it was for. – Borin Van Loon
0337 – Hugs and Kisses
Hugs and Kisses It’s a risky business being a cyclist in the UK, there are a lot of people who really dislike us. It’s the Jeremy Clarkson influence – we’re hated on the roads. We just hope people realise we are just flesh and bones on two wheels. – Victoria Pendleton
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0350 – Infinity Bicycle
Bicycling…is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. There are movements on a bicycle corresponding to almost all the variations in the flight of the larger birds. Plunging free downhill is […]
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0497 – Legs Speak Louder Than Words
Legs Speak Louder Than Words Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it’s the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell. – Roland Barthes
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0558 – Stop Looking at my Nipples
Stop Looking at my Nipples I want to buy a sports car, because I like riding bicycles. Hold on to my handlebar mustache if you value your life. – Jarod Kintz
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0520 – Fun Between My Legs
Put the fun between your legs. When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day’s sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay’s call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamoring of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I […]
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0145 – Commuter
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. ~ Mark Twain