“Of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That’s invaluable.”

Cycling also offers a sense of independence.

In the UK cycling was very popular until the end of the 1950’s but it really lost out to our love affair with the car.

It’s quick, and it makes you look and feel great!

just look at Oxford and Cambridge.

Regaining a culture where cycling is seen as an everyday part of life requires time and effort.

In other places, where the car has been king for many decades, it takes more time.

It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone – by trying to act it out.

The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.

When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.

Mature love is loving, not being loved.

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.